To determine the breakeven can be a little complex given the plan to sell
books at different prices.
Both Amazon and B&N reserve the right to sell
your book at a different price, at their discretion (5.3.4 in KDP terms).
Not exact matches
Some of this difference is driven by slightly
different growth factors; for example, VONG looks
at book - to -
price ratios, medium - term growth forecasts and historical sales - per - share growth, while IWY only uses the latter two factors.
BIG W eBooks is
different — we are an Australian retailer with a focus on the
books Australians love, with downloads at Australia's lowest prices,» said Scott White who is heading the Books division at B
books Australians love, with downloads
at Australia's lowest
prices,» said Scott White who is heading the
Books division at B
Books division
at BIG W.
Despite efforts from
different major publishers to sell
books directly through their own websites, even in the face of
pricing disputes and lack of access to titles offered by retailers
at one point, it isn't a concept that has grown.
Publishers sell
books into
different outlets
at different prices, and when they earn less they like to pay the author less.
Bar Code - An arrangement of numbers and lines
at different widths that can be scanned in order to register the
price of a
book and certain information about it.
At the Amazon
Books stores, things are a little
different from the model of its chain predecessors: On the shelves, covers face out instead of spines;
prices are unlisted so they can fluctuate with online changes.
There are no hard and fast rules on what works for
pricing, and there are plenty of examples of successful
books coming in
at vastly
different ranges than those above.
Depending on whether you intend to offer your
book for free, or
at a discounted sales
price, slightly
different approaches apply.
I'll have some
books at Smashwords, some on Kindle Select, some on pre-order, of
different lengths and
prices... Once I publish I'll start posting case studies with figures.
Why is my
book listed
at a
different price on certain sites?
Amazon uses popularity and bestseller lists which are based on
different criteria including number of
books sold, how long a
book has been selling well and the
price at which the
book is sold.
Numerous studies have been conducted on how
books fare
at different price points, even within the genre - based breakdown: a
book of a certain word count will sell really well
at one
price if it's a crime thriller by a bestselling author, for example, but
at the same
price may fail abysmally if it's a beach - read romance by an unknown author.
And nonfiction buyers often compare several
different books before choosing one, so you may be
at a disadvantage if comparable ebooks are
priced substantially lower.
To celebrate the announcement, the search giant is offering a
different album,
book, video rental and Android app
at a special
price each day over the next week in the company's «7 Days to Play» sale.
Hopefully they'll also let publishers try out that two - pronged approach where the
book is available both with and without ads,
at two
different prices.
The Digital Reader also offers six
different points of view regarding KU, which are mostly mixed and seem to point towards experimenting and seeing what happens (though
at least one person thinks the
pricing structure could devalue
books).
Also, Amazon allows you to share most e-books with up to 6
different people on your account — so you, your wife, your 2 kids, and your parents can all read the same e-
book at the same time for one purchase
price — try that with a printed
book.
I have sold them from $ 2.99 to $ 9.99 and haven't seen much of a difference in the number of
books selling
at different price points.
Haupt writes that small changes like a new cover and introduction text are enough to declare the
book a separate edition, making it eligible to be sold
at a
different, sometimes lower,
price.
Since 2002 Germany has had fixed
book pricing, making it illegal to sell one title for varying
prices at different retailers.
Indie
book pricing is a tough matter because each
book and each genre will sell differently
at different price points.
This page holds a list of
different websites that are willing to run
book tours for authors
at a
price.
In an interview with Portfolio, Steinberg describes how his new
book, The Modern Parent's Guide to Kids and Video Games will not only be released in
different formats, but
at vastly
different prices as well (ranging from $ 17.99 to zilch.)
When Amazon contends that
book prices are not very elastic, it (and you) appears to be willing to elide its own experience
at selling
books at price points ranging from $ 14.99 to $.99, finding willing consumers
at each, and moving
prices about to take advantage of
different groups of consumers.
Executive Editor and Co-founder of
Book Riot Interview starts
at 10:10 and ends
at 43:25 «If publishers woke up tomorrow and sanely
priced e-books, I think it would be
different in degree not in kind.
In our heads,
at least, readers tend to view ebooks as a
different entity with a
different price point than a physical
book, especially hardcover.
They are talking about the same
book at two
different price points.
Also, remember that big publishers have totally
different deals with retailers, so you don't know what they are getting paid on a
book priced at $ 14.99 for the eBook version.
«If people can put out 12 versions of a single
book under
different titles and authors, and
at different prices, even if they sell just one or two
books, they can make money.
In traditional publishing,
books of many
different sizes are sold
at the same
price.
Amazon may have 6
different versions of the same
book,
at different price points and nothing in their descriptions to help sort it out.
Since your
book can have as few as seven
different prices without considering occasional sales, it's worth taking a deeper look
at what your royalty statement can entail.
If you have purchased a security
at different prices, the
book value is the average purchase
price for this holding.
They looked
at two portfolios of value stocks trading on comparable multiples of
price - to - earnings, cash flow, operating earnings,
book value and sales, but with
different historical rates of sales growth; one with a high rate of growth, the other low.
Online Travel
Booking Agencies allow you to search for the best
price across a number of
different airlines
at once.
But do not immediately a
book a room
at the first hotel you find offering the lowest rates; spend additional time browsing online until you come up with a sufficient list of
different hotels and
prices you can choose from.
So, it is always advisable to compare
prices on
different websites to
book at the best
price.
The Lehmann Maupin web store has many limited - edition and unique works available
at different price points, including signed copies of Gilbert & George's LONDON PICTURES
book ($ 30); a limited edition, 504 - piece puzzle featuring an Alex Prager photograph ($ 75); Ashley Bickerton's lavishly illustrated monograph ($ 375); a hand - colored, limited edition etching by Billy Childish ($ 750); a unique collage on paper by Tony Oursler ($ 4,500); and Mickalene Thomas's photograph Portrait of Lili in Color ($ 6,000).
In his
book on legal services regulation, Noel Semple posits that choice is a «key interest» of clients and that «clients are better off if they can choose between service options
at different price and quality points, assuming that all of them meet a basic quality threshold.»
«Value
pricing and ethics are not mutually exclusive; they coexist in the marketplace everywhere else - from airlines having
different fares for
different passengers and designer ice cream manufacturers charging a premium
price to movie theater popcorn and hardcover
books being
priced at a premium.
< 3 Oh yes... they are designed to be grouped as
different «sets» — each set of
books is
at a
different size and
price point for
different markets.