Sentences with phrase «authors keep the pricing low»

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Let trade publishers keep artificially high prices, and discourage would - be authors by shaming them into thinking self publishing is as low as eating out of a garbage can.

«What you have is a company fighting for lower prices for customers, while keeping the pay for publishers and authors the same, and they are evil,» he wrote, adding, «The real losers are the authors and readers, of course.»

Maybe a lower price might get someone to try a series with a slightly increased price for other books in that series, but with the higher royalty percentage on each unit and less cuts into margin, an author can afford to keep the cost down.

Preston asked readers, in the most public way possible, to support Hachette — a company that wants to raise ebook prices while keeping author royalties low, and to express their displeasure directly at Amazon, a company that wants to keep ebook prices low while giving authors higher royalties.

Besides annoying any reader who purchases from Amazon only to discover he / she could have got it much cheaper elsewhere, Amazon doesn't even give authors a cut of the extra, from what I can tell — they keep it all and you get the same royalty amount as if the book had been purchased at the lower price you set.

Authors and self - publishers can only lose out by these low prices, as they spend considerably more money and time to create the books than Amazon (or whoever) spends to keep those books listed in a database.

In fact, with traditional publishers keeping their ebook prices high, they are actually increasing the exposure of self - published authors by ceding the low - priced ebook market to them.

Sites often pay at a lower rate for low - priced books to incent authors to keep the prices higher, which is generally good for all authors.

A retailer with a philosophy of enlightened self - interest wants to keep prices low, and is treating authors better than any company in history.

Amazon likes to present it as «We're keeping prices low to benefit readers,» and I know a number of authors who are happy with CreateSpace.

PS: Make sure you do everything you can to keep ebook prices as low as possible (while not hurting authors).