The wholesale discount is so high that you will need to price
your book at a high price in order to make any money.
To the point, why take 1 - 2 years to write a good
book at a higher price than spend less time on a $ 0.99 book, the industry can allow for both without a big publisher being involved.
I'm certainly less inclined to just grab a new
book at the higher prices, but I don't find it to that big a deal when there are still plenty of books for sale on special or at much lower prices by lesser known authors.
I'd love to buy
books at the higher price range all the time but I just read far too quickly for that.
If recent videos of the iPad posted on Apple's Web site are any indication, Apple will be selling the same
books at higher prices...
Perhaps there's the option for special edition books (signed
books at a higher price for example), but generally, the more books you write and publish, the more you'll make.
I would bet that if you priced one book at 99 cents, and then had a lead in from that book to the second book (with a sales page), you could sell the second
book at a higher price — possibly even higher than $ 4.99.
After you have established yourself as an author and have between 50 - 100 reviews (with an average of 4 stars), you should start selling
your books at a higher price.
They're also offering better royalties for
books at higher price points: for ebooks priced from $ 10 to $ 199.99, the royalty is 65 %, up from 40 % previously.
Over the years, I've had some my books hidden by Amazon's search engine because someone else had a similar
book at a higher price and thus a higher profit for Amazon.
People who are really into the author or book seem to be still snapping up
books at the higher price.
It's interesting to think that KU encourages authors to sell
their books at a higher price.
I developed this approach after buying a number of very popular
books at high prices from the big publishing houses and feeling it was like The Emperor's New Clothes — the books were horrible by standards of literature, but had impossibly great reviews.
Do you have
another book at a higher price point?
I appreciate that Amazon is working to try to stop people from gaming the system, I just wish they stop people from gaming the exclusive list at the 99 cent price point, because that hurts the people selling real
books at higher price points.
When your author name and catalogue of books grows with awareness over time, then you can look at setting select
books at a higher price.
If a company requires you to price
your book at a high price, be wary.
It is true that some particular author might sell more
books at the higher price, but they will be in a minority.
But having fewer
books at higher price that are not instantly available unless you pay even more for data - plan doesn't seem like a recipe for success to me.
Not exact matches
Guests who believe they have experienced racism while using Airbnb may report instances of discrimination to the company or accept Instant
Booking listings
at a
higher price than normal, but there's currently no policy in place to put them on a level playing field with other white guests.
Some, too, dangle free accommodations
at a luxury hotel to lure you into a
high - pressure sales pitch for timeshares or vacation clubs, while others make good on that free cruise for you, but require you to
book a second guest
at a grossly inflated
price.
How to Sell
at Margins
Higher than Your Competitors: Winning Every Sale
at Full
Price by Lawrence L. Steinmetz, and William T. Brooks This is
book discusses the importance of margins in setting
prices.
The post flags a few trends: Investment rounds are happening
at higher prices, investors are increasingly collaborating with each other, and many of the start - ups are
booking revenue before they seek funding.
«
Prices have declined
at the
high end of the market but remained steady for more moderately
priced units; bidding wars have become noticeably less prevalent,» the Beige
Book said.
A figure that was subsequently increased repurchase share
at prices no
higher than 20 percent premium to
book value.
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.
Trading that occurs
at low multiples of earnings, cash flow or
book value for long periods of time might indicate that the company or the entire sector is in trouble, and that stock
prices may not move
higher.»
At the same time, lots of stocks that trade on low PE's, low
price to
book values and
high dividend yields have turned out to be terrible investments.
For my fellow Canadians, the
book is available for preorder
at chapters.indigo.ca though they need to sort out the listings as there are currently two, the first with the cover and a
higher price listed unavailable, and the second with no cover, but a lower
price, ready for preorder.
They come
at a
higher price but it's another great even better option in my
book.)
A gauge of industrial shares that includes Sydney Airport and tollroad operator Transurban Group is trading near to the most expensive in
at least 10 years compared with bank stocks, after hitting in May the
highest relative
price - to -
book ratio since data began in 2005.
If your hotel
books babysitting for you the
prices may seem very
high — or
at least inflated — with restrictions on the number of children and hours
booked.
The special edition will come
at a
higher price point and include a CD and what appears to be a map and art
book.
Overall, the Dart still rates
high marks in my
book — I suspect
at these
prices and with this much style and equipment it will do well against the competition.
When everyone is
pricing sub $ 4.00,
price promotions will become less effective — If readers have an unlimited supply of
high - quality
books from their favorite authors
at under $ 4.00, it means factors other than
price will gain importance.
The Basic Publishing Package is ideal for independently minded authors who need a
high - quality
book at an affordable
price.
I'd far rather look through many hundreds of stock photos and find one that fits perfectly with a
book's message than to attempt to kludge together a cover from a few images I could get an exclusive on
at some
high price or to attempt to take one myself, with all the complications that can involve, particularly that of finding models.
However, if you want to make the most money (especially on Amazon, which only allows authors to receive 70 percent in royalties if the
book is
priced at $ 2.99 or
higher — $ 1.99 and $ 0.99
books only allow authors a 35 percent royalty rate), then $ 4.99 appears to be the best
price point for selling a good amount of
books (though far less than with a lower
price point) while making the most in profit.
They're doing this by: — not listing Hachette titles — setting Hatchette title
prices at (sometimes extraordinarily)
high price points to discourage readers from buying them — setting shipping dates for already - available Hachette
books at 3 - 5 weeks out, instead of making them immediately available — suggesting other
books when readers search for Hachette titles
At the time, he was pricing his self - published books at $ 1.99, and the major publisher books were as high as the $ 8 vicinit
At the time, he was
pricing his self - published
books at $ 1.99, and the major publisher books were as high as the $ 8 vicinit
at $ 1.99, and the major publisher
books were as
high as the $ 8 vicinity.
A number of authors have criticized the concept of free
book giveaways or listing ebooks
at substantially lower
prices, based on the belief that this will translate into not only
higher rates of piracy, but also lost sales from readers who would have otherwise paid full
price.
The
pricing of a Featured
Book Posting is $ 100 if your book is priced as a free title on the day of promotion, and $ 125 if your book is priced at $ 0.99 or higher on the day of promotion: these spots tend to sell out well in adva
Book Posting is $ 100 if your
book is priced as a free title on the day of promotion, and $ 125 if your book is priced at $ 0.99 or higher on the day of promotion: these spots tend to sell out well in adva
book is
priced as a free title on the day of promotion, and $ 125 if your
book is priced at $ 0.99 or higher on the day of promotion: these spots tend to sell out well in adva
book is
priced at $ 0.99 or
higher on the day of promotion: these spots tend to sell out well in advance.
Taking these twenty one
books, the cost
at Waterstones (reasonable search engine, reliably
high prices) is # 130.43.
Yeah, I feel authors who have
books like yours (longer word counts,
higher prices) are
at a disadvantage with KU.
They know our reputation for providing
high - quality, professional
book design and editing services
at commercial
prices.
I browse for new
books and authors all the time and when I learn about a
book or author I might enjoy and find they are
priced at $ 10 or
higher I pass.
The artistic complexity of the texts has reached very
high levels of sophistication, and so has the expense
at which the
books have to be produced, therefore increasing the cover
prices substantially.
Amazon, where new copies of Macmillan
books were returning Friday night, had announced last week it expected to «capitulate and accept Macmillan's terms because Macmillan has a monopoly over their own titles, and we will want to offer them to you even
at prices we believe are needlessly
high for e-
books.»
All of the
books above available as ebooks
at very low
prices, and all but Out of the Shadows are also out in paperback too, from all good retailers, online and on the
high street.
As you can see in the chart above, for
prices below $ 2.99, for a
book the length of mine in this genre, they expect me to gross more
at $ 1.99 than
at $ 0.99 — but much more (because of the
higher royalty rate)
at $ 2.99.