Sentences with phrase «book at a deep discount»

It seems fair that when a publisher sells a book at a deep discount, the author's take might be reduced proportionally.

This creates a situation where it's actually more profitable for the publisher to sell books at the deep discount than just above it, since the reduction in the author's royalty more than offsets the amount of the reduction in the selling price.

You can also order your own book at a deep discount and resale them at list price at various events.

When everyone is forced to sell their books at deep discount, even the big names, do you realistically think anyone is going to read books by no - names when you can get proven authors at the same price?

Amazon is a wholesale retailer, meaning that Hachette sells them the print books at a deeper discount than they do retail stores.

You're right to say that a retailer could sell one book at a deeper discount than their agency cut but then they'll have to make that up by not going deep on the discount for another book.

Not exact matches

They've been selling properties at deep discounts to already written - down book values, but at prices high enough to more than justify today's depressed share price.

I've made a decent profit selling old things I had, valuable books that people placed in the compactor room as well as some items found at deep discounts either at thrift stores or the clearance section.

I've bought manga at deep discounts at these shows, sometimes as low as a buck a book.

So if you've been meaning to buy one of my books, now is the time to get it at a deep discount.

If your Kindle book is permafree, free for a limited time, or being offered on Amazon at a deep discount from the normal cover price, we can help you spread the word and get your title the attention it deserves.

Wholesaler Company, group or individual who purchases high volumes of books from a publisher at deep discounts and sells them to retailers at midlevel discount.

In fact, the first Marvel book to appear in the Amazon rankings is at number 25 (they had a few that made the top ten a couple of weeks ago because of deep discounts).

A further point others have pointed out is that while book publishers have to sell remainders at deep discounts, the price of an e-book doesn't go down with age, as there is no need to get an e-book out of inventory.

Furthermore deep discounts do not occur on any sale at any traditional book account including those mentioned in the article.

According to my royalty statements, 80 - 90 % of the books I'm selling through my traditional publishers are at deep discount.

If you're right — and the books aren't being sold at deep discount to Amazon (like they often are to Wal - Mart and other large accounts)-- then where are 80 - 90 % of the books being sold, and so cheaply?

In the past, several publishers I worked with told me that they were selling books to WalMart at deep discount.

Keep in mind that the «deep discount» clause usually kicks in at 51 % for books contracted prior to 2011 or so... and that trade nonfiction (which actually drives this whole conversation — trade fiction is the flea on the tail of the dog, at least insofar as the money in book publishing goes, and is the source of every default in publishing) has been much slower to raise that trigger point.

Again, the amount of books sold at deep discount is very small and it would be to a special sales account or non-returnable account.

That's a significant loss for books sold at deep discount.

Smashwords Read an Ebook Week Catalog - This is the hub of the action, where you find over 75,000 multi-format books regularly priced at free every day, and thousands more that are free or deep - discounted exclusively at Smashwords during Read an Ebook Week only.

And yet, I am looking at royalty statement after royalty statement, most of which are not mine and were shared in confidence, which list almost all of the books sold at deep discount — 64 % to be exact.

So if the book is deep discounted at $ 5.00 through a deep discount account, the royalty will probably be 4 %.

Kris, let me add that books are not sold at deep discount to WalMart either.

On the books that you're talking about, what percentage of the print run is at a deep discount.

In reality, some books will be discounted deeper, and some will be sold at full list, but an average of 20 % felt about right.

Now, each contract has a discount schedule, reducing the royalty if a book is sold at deep (or what the average person would call high) discount.

Designed to push print books... the bonus is that a buyer can get the eBook at a deep discount.

Of course, remaindering means that the books will be sold — at a deep discount that probably will only cover printing costs at pennies on the dollar — so the publisher is getting paid — albeit at a loss — but the writer is not.

What is significant in people who do buy books is that deep discounting on a small number of titles results in distrust because the general public doesn't realise that these books are being sold at a loss, and therefore question why other books are not similarly discounted.

As a wholesaler, they can do deep price discounts on print books because they buy them from the publisher at a very low price.

March also brought the first of many requests from entrepreneurial types who wanted to buy the book in quantity at a deep discount for resale at a profit, a request we politely rejected.

Authors looking to address each aspect of their book may opt for the comprehensive package — a combination of all three levels of editing plus a critique at a deep discount.

Statistics show that a whopping 95 % of bargain readers will purchase a book from an unknown author if it's offered at a deep discount.

Amazon's deep discounts came at their own expense, so major publishers were getting 100 % of what consumers spent on their books.

In a nutshell, I suspect the rise of multi-author box sets, often at deep discount prices, is probably throwing off the data this year, and as I discuss in the presentation, some of the dynamics will cause it to understate impact of longer books and some will cause it to overstate it.

I should note that hardcover copies of the Abnormal Returns book are on deep discount over at Amazon, so if you don't have a copy yet now is your chance.

[NB: i) Church House's Argo stake is held by the Deep Value Investments Fund, managed by Jeroen Bos — if you haven't read it already, I can highly recommend his recent book «Deep Value Investing», ii) XXX Capital Management is a well - known European hedge fund, which hasn't publicly disclosed a holding in Argo to date, hence the redaction — Argo management are obviously aware of their shareholding & support, and iii) the letter was based on a GBP 14p share price & a higher GBP / USD rate — at the current 13.875 p price and exchange rate, Argo now trades at a 36 % discount to net cash and investments, and a 47 % discount to net tangible assets.]