Soon after these agreements went into place, industry observers noted an upward move in
average ebook prices.
While this is likely a negative development for readers, indie - authors are likely positioned to benefit from higher
average ebook prices (especially when this average is skewed by titles coming from Big Five publishers).
Correlation does not equal causation, but a look at
average ebook prices in each market is certainly instructive.
You can find more data on
average ebook prices for Amazon, indie, and self - pub ebooks over on the Author Earnings website.
This is a fair amount of sales, but customers are voicing their disdain for higher than
average ebook prices.
Assuming
an average eBook price of about $ 4.99, and an average royalty rate of 60 %, let's say, you'd have to sell about 1,400 copies every month consistently to make a decent living, and I'm here to tell you that anything having to do with the sale of a non-essential product will never, ever be consistent.
(BTW, my authors get 40 percent net on ebooks, and
our average ebook price is under 9.99)
The average ebook price increased to # 7.
The company found that on
average an ebook priced at $ 9.99 sold 1.74 times as many copies as an ebook priced at $ 14.99.
Not exact matches
This month, it was the turn of
ebooks: six science fiction and fantasy titles available at the purchaser - defined
price, with those paying above
average unlocking seven more, including Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean's acclaimed Signal to Noise.
We set
ebook pricing techniques in the metadata, so you just have to give the
average list
price for your book as you were in an agency model and we will do the magic for you.
Your
average ebook, as
priced by a traditional publisher like Hachette, costs $ 14.99.
Wherein big publisher
ebooks maintain an absurd
price that is meant to deter the
average buyer from fully adopting the format, keeping relationships with traditional booksellers intact.
Now, I either stick to the 99 cent
eBooks or I buy used hardcovers at $ 4 - 5 with shipping because I'm just not willing to buy 80 books a year at an
average price of $ 12.
Since it's fair to assume the
average ebook consumer earns at least the federal hourly minimum wage (and likely more), $ 10 is a more - than - fair
ebook price for both consumer and creator.
It is well established that paperback books are on the decline and the
average buyer has switched to the lower
priced ebook format.
Potential authors may be interested to hear that XinXii offers up to 70 % cut of the sale
prices for
ebooks, which is quite better than the
average, which is often closer to around 40 % -50 %.
The
average price people paid for an
ebook was $ 6.38 and the amount of people purchasing them has declined by 7.7 %.
«As a result, the
average price of a best - selling
ebook this week is $ 5.27, a new all - time low.
Authors are starting to approach their publishing business more professionally, which is reflected in higher
prices for
ebooks and increased
average earnings.
Prices can be set at a maximum value far lower than the average prices of most competing ebooks and the lack of a professional marketer can cause many self - published books to be lost among the countless other books for sale on sites like the Amazon Kindle bookstore or Barnes & Noble's online book
Prices can be set at a maximum value far lower than the
average prices of most competing ebooks and the lack of a professional marketer can cause many self - published books to be lost among the countless other books for sale on sites like the Amazon Kindle bookstore or Barnes & Noble's online book
prices of most competing
ebooks and the lack of a professional marketer can cause many self - published books to be lost among the countless other books for sale on sites like the Amazon Kindle bookstore or Barnes & Noble's online bookstore.
The trend over the past several months has been downward and sure enough, the Digital Book World
EBook Best - Seller List reached the lowest
average price yet, $ 5.27.
On
average,
ebooks are
priced anywhere from $ 0 — $ 9.99 and in some cases higher (Ahem... KMM Fever series * cough *...) depending on whether you have a traditional publisher or have decided to self - publish.
In terms of unit sales, the lower
average price for
ebooks helps push more sales.
While in traditional publishing
average book cover
price ranges from $ 750 to $ 2000 for print and
ebook cover, you don't have to pay that much when starting with self - publishing.
The
average price per
ebook has decreased from 10.71 Euro in 2010 to 6.82 Euro in 2015, and continues to decrease in 2016 to 6.60 Euro.
With the
average sales tax percentage that a U.S. customer pays reaching 9.64 % in 2010 according to a finding published by Vertex, Inc., and considering that residents in some areas of the country pay an astounding 13.73 %, the savings over the holiday on a device that ranges in
price from $ 134 for an e-reader to over $ 500 for a tablet can more than cover a few
ebooks.
Parents of e-reading children are most comfortable with
ebooks priced between $ 3.50 and $ 9.00, paying $ 7.00 on
average for a children's
ebook, a figure that has risen steadily over the past year
The
average price people paid for an
ebook was $ 6.38 and the amount of... [Read more...]
The organization's top executive, Vickery Bowles, said publishers charge vastly different
prices to libraries than
average consumers, and the
ebooks come also with many usage restrictions.
The Douglas County (Colo.) Libraries
Pricing Comparison for April (PDF file) shows a continuing trend with library
ebook prices running at an
average of 5.3 times the consumer
price.
While most print books are available to libraries at a bit less than the discounted consumer cost at Amazon, these
ebooks average five times the Amazon consumer
price.
While self - pubbed authors generally
price their
ebooks lower than $ 9.99 (the royalties they receive by Amazon are cut in half otherwise), indies have responded to the new ruling with an
average 5 %
price increase.
The
price of new bestselling
eBooks increased to an
average of $ 12 — $ 15 — an increase of 33 to 50 percent,» the filing continued
But let's say that all of those lower
priced ebooks sell on
average a total of 1 book a day for a total of 99 books a day, and that the one book at $ 14.99 sells 10000 copies a day.
Publishers determine the
average list
price of books and online
ebook stores can not sell the books for less then that.
The fact that the Zon knows how to
price ebooks (a lesson the publishing industry has yet to learn, despite their digital sales dropping last year) and that is to keep
prices low, really shows that is something the
average digital reader expects... you lower that even further... a $ 2.99
ebook sells for $.99 and that is the version they will purchase, imho...
According to the report,» Since we started pulling this data, the
average price of an
ebook from a Big 5 publisher has gone up 17 %.
The
average price respondents were willing to pay for
ebooks was # 3.74.
The
average sales per day across the Top 100 Children's
Ebooks were around 50 copies per day at an
average price level of $ 4.80 at the time.
In fact, the
average prices of
ebook bestseller lists have shown a fairly consistent downward trend for the past year as more and more titles exit agency
price controls and enter the free market.»
Average prices of trade
ebooks sold by the defending publishers increased by 18.6 percent at Amazon and by 19.9 percent at Barnes & Noble through the transition to agency.
Defendants exercised their market power when they collectively increased the
average price of trade
ebooks, DOJ said in a filing on Tuesday.
The
average price of an
ebook in 2014 was $ 3.99 to $ 5.99 (not including sales, promotions, and free books).
This week, the
average price of an
ebook best - seller is $ 9.17.
For an
average 2 - week lending term, libraries would get a full year of lending for about US$ 10 - 20, based on typical
ebook prices — that's about 40 - 80 cents a loan.
Source: Global
eBook Market Current Conditions and Future Projections (Rudiger Wischenbart),
Average prices, in euros, for the top ten fiction bestsellers in the US, first week of September 2011 (Publishers Weekly, The Bookseller / Nielsen, Livres Hebdo / Ipsos, and Der Spiegel / buchreport).
2) The
average price for indie and self - pub
ebooks that this analysis (the one in this post that we're commenting on) found was between $ 3 and $ 4.
They would do this by receiving their royalty on a higher
average price that readers might pay for a more useful
ebook — because royalties ultimately are based on what a book will sell for — and from the extra sales made to readers who want this specific feature.
The
average price German readers had to pay for their
ebooks continuously dropped within the last years and settled at 7.08 euros per title in 2014.