A trio of international publishing sales executives reflect on the different attitudes toward
book pricing across the world, wondering what the future holds.
For the first six months of 2012 consumer price index in the book retail was about 1 % only with the average
book price across all categories being 176.16 Roubles.
Not exact matches
MarketCap / GVA is better correlated with actual subsequent S&P 500 total returns than
price / forward earnings, the Fed Model, the Shiller P / E,
price /
book,
price / dividend, Tobin's Q, market capitalization to GDP,
price / revenue and every other valuation ratio we've developed or examined in market cycles
across history.
The only common Value metric used
across all four is
Book - to -
Price.
That benchmark «measures value in separate dimensions
across three risk factors:
book value to
price ratio, earnings to
price ratio and sales to
price ratio.
Through its rapacious little - to - no profit strategy, it has not only challenged the supremacy of traditional retailers like Walmart, but has also put downward
price pressure on companies
across the economy, most notably in
book publishing, where Amazon got its start.
After Portugal found the back of the ole onion bag that
price came crashing down
across Europe... not to an expected +300 range on a 3 way draw line line instead the number reopened at +180... and crashed even further to a paltry +150 at some
books.
Pearson, with headquarters in Great Britain, owns the publishing companies Scott Foresman, Penguin, Harcourt and Prentice Hall, setting text
book prices, controlling content, and «franchising» the curriculum in thousands of K - 12 schools and colleges
across the country.
Bookings for the same has already started at dealerships
across India at a starting
price of Rs 10,000.
Setting a low
price could help you draw in readers who are just browsing and came
across your
book.
Retail
pricing competition stalled and e-
book prices rose
across all online
book stores.
Check the
pricing of
books in your genre
across the globe, and use that as a guide for
pricing your
book in those markets.
I'm going to compare my whole collection of
books across the stores again soon, to see if there's been much of a change in
pricing since the launch of the UK Kindle.
Maybe the three
books now average 25 sales per month
across all sites at $ 4.99 list
price.
A senior research fellow of the Society for New Communications Research and a board member of the Independent
Book Publishers Association, serving thousands of publishers
across North America and around the world, Danny Snow admits that e-
Books solve serious problems in traditional publishing: overprinting; the cost of shipping
books back and forth between warehouses and stores during a time of climbing fuel
prices and growing focus on air quality; and the bad bookstore practice of over-ordering, then returning unsold
books are all eliminated by digital distribution.
Maybe the four
books now average 30 sales per month
across all sites at $ 4.99 list
price.
Second, this legislation would only affect Quebec, so consumers in other parts of Canada would not have to pay the artificially inflated
price, meaning readers who live along the borderline between Quebec and a neighboring province would simply move their
book purchases
across the line to avoid paying a higher
price.
If I'm right, then we can expect to see a major
price increas
across the board on ALL Amazon
books.
I came
across a $ 97 product called ePubTemplates that says it will do all the conversion for me, but before I could get it I stumbled upon your delightful site which is telling me that for the
price of a $ 2.99 ebook on Amazon by Paul Salvette and the FREE program Calibre that I will have everything I need to convert my
book to the Kindle!
Agency
pricing, for those who have not been following the most important development in the growth of the
book market, enabled the publishers to enforce a uniform
price for each ebook title
across all retail outlets
The way to get Amazon to «
price - match,» you need to put your
book across multiple platforms so that Amazon is the only retailer that's charging money for your title.
There are established
prices of
books across the board, which helps small shops compete with the big chains, but also allows overseas competitors to flood the market with cheap digital alternatives to the higher
priced printed variants.
The Luzme site itself offers ebook fans the ability to not only locate ebooks quickly
across several platforms, showing consumers where particular titles are available and from which platform, but also allows consumers to be alerted when a title goes on sale or where it can be found at the best
price; users can even incorporate their Watch Lists from their widely used ebook retailers to be alerted when a
book on that list becomes available at a lower
price.
«Shelf Awareness has reported that in response to the direct competition, which is
across the 466,000
books that Overstock supplies, Amazon.com has begun discounting the
price of hardback
books much higher than before.
It's important for listeners to know a bit about the background, because
across Europe, many countries, including France as well as Germany, have national laws that mandate fixed
prices for
books, including ebooks.
Cohen went on to discuss the special considerations on
pricing and DRM - free status, indicating that Ganxy is not concerned with piracy due to the data that shows making
books available
across platforms and devices and making sure the
book is
priced in a way that reaches out to reading consumers will effectively thwart illegal file sharing in most cases.
This means
books will probably be the same
price across Amazon's Kindle Store and Apple's iBookstore — more expensive than the $ 9.99
price Amazon loves in a lot of cases.
However, eco-system is such a crucial component to the eReader and the synchronization
across devices,
price and larger selection of
books Amazon provides is unparalleled.
And it feels pretty strongly about the call, too, suggesting that it would happily accept 30 percent of digital
book revenue — that's the same percentage it currently receives from Hachette — if the publisher dropped digital
prices to $ 9.99
across the board.
If you're using Smashwords to publish to other retailers, which include Barnes & Noble, iTunes, Kobo (Smashwords does not distribute
books to Amazon), all you need to do is discount your ebook on Smashwords, and Smashwords will update the
price across the other retailers.
Your description sounds like a B&N I've visited that's just
across the highway and a block or so down from a major Half
Price Books.
Agreeing to agency models still suited the publishers» long - term interests because they wanted to «shift their industry to higher e-book
prices to protect the
prices of their physical
books and the brick and mortar stores that sold those physical
books,» Cote wrote, adding that» [t] o change the
price of e-
books across the industry... the Publishers would have to raise Amazon's
prices.»
«Readers continue to choose Kindle for its all - new electronic ink screen with 50 percent higher contrast, readability in bright sunlight, long battery life of up to one month, light 8.5 ounce form, flexibility to read their
books across all major LCD devices and platforms, and low $ 139
price.
That looks like a double - feedback mechanism where you have declining sales due to high
prices, but not enough new
books to drive up the number of sales to make up for
across the board
price reductions.
Once the law passes, both print
books and ebooks will be sold for a single, fixed
price across all sales channels.
Note: the
book hasn't been
price - matched
across all Amazon outlets, so at Amazon DE, FR, IT, ES, CA etc., it'll be the foreign currency equivalent of US$ 0.99 c.
I have always supported my local Half
Price Books store and the few other used independent bookstores not just because of the prices, but because they offer so many out of print and hard to find books that I am always looking for or happen to come across while browsing the ai
Books store and the few other used independent bookstores not just because of the
prices, but because they offer so many out of print and hard to find
books that I am always looking for or happen to come across while browsing the ai
books that I am always looking for or happen to come
across while browsing the aisles.
For the DOJ, this quote was evidence that Apple knew it was asking all the publishers to raise
prices for their
books across the board.
Several months ago I came
across a study (of admittedly much smaller sample size) that an website selling rpg systems /
books did of their sale
prices that factored in a much wider range of
price points than just those two in their efforts to determine, as Amazon seems to be doing, the
pricing sweet spot (for their best interests in both cases).
It cites its own studies, which show that compared to an e-
book costing $ 15 (a bit higher than average for an e-
book across all digital marketplaces Electronista looked at), the same
book priced at $ 10 would sell 1.74 copies for every one copy at the higher
price.
I recently came
across a consortium of promoters who were «fixing» the
price of a certain
book promotion.
If you come
across self publishing subsidy companies that ask you to pay for over-inflated
prices upwards of $ 8,000 for a children's
book run the other way.
While the Amazon announcement is primarily a branding and marketing strategy (reduced
price, specially highlighted on its own landing page) and probably just one more shot
across the bow of traditional publishers (major authors have stuff shoved into a drawer that could be published independently, without the involvement of their «trade
book» publisher), the concept could be a big deal for two kinds of people who read this blog: Bloggers and magazine publishers.
And most ebook purchases come from Apple or Amazon — and the way people buy those
books (finding the
book, looking at the cover, reading the reviews, reading the description, downloading to their device) is just about the same — and the
book's
pricing should be the same
across platforms.
In this course from PublishDrive's Zsofia Macho, find out how to
price your ebook for various territories and learn the best practices for selling your
books across the world.
In 2015, our authors and publishers can expect to see continuous improvements
across every part of our business, including: New distribution and merchandising tools that make your
books more discoverable and desirable by readers New
price management tools that give our authors and publishers more granular control over
pricing in multiple currencies and territories New retailer additions to the Smashwords distribution network serving retailers and libraries Improved, more intuitive sales reporting An upgraded Meatgrinder to improve the ease and capabilities of our flagship ebook conversion tool Improved search for the Smashwords retail store... and some fun surprises that will set the stage for even greater things to come.
«Find your next great read at an affordable
price, and enjoy it
across Android, iOS and the web with Google Play
Books, as well as on devices that include the Google Assistant, like Google Home and many others.»
Amazon always compares the
price of the paperback version with the Kindle version on a
book sales page by putting a strikethrough line
across the print
book price above the Kindle
price.
It usually covers up to the Kelley Blue
Book value of the motorcycle, which is an aggregate
price of the identical bike for sale
across thousands of dealerships in the U.S., rather than a claim limit that is a specific dollar amount.
Hi Abhishake great article After completing intial screening i came
across many stocks which have higher
price to
book ratio is it a character of a multi-bagger stocks or i just need to ignor that stocks