For the third year in a row, authors sold more units and earned more overall income with
books priced at $ 3.99.
Our ratios will be for «Top 120,000 Best Sellers on July 14, 2014» while their 1.74 ratio probably factors in * ALL *
books priced at those price points, and covers a much longer period of time.
If you write full length fiction and you have
books priced at $ 1.99, trying increasing the price to $ 2.99 or $ 3.99, and if your book performs as the aggregate does, you'll probably sell more units.
Amazon pays a 30 % royalty on
books priced at 99c and $ 1.99.
That's not such an easier decision for
books priced at $ 2.99 or $ 3.99 or $ 4.99, but I still end up buying some rather than entering the giveaway.
As far as KDP Select goes, I'll probably stay in for the time being — at least until I've got a bit of a backlist built up and then I might consider offering a perma - free title on book # 1 which works well for a lot of authors — plus, with
my books priced at $ 2.99, I make slightly more profit off a «borrow» which is a good reason to stay in Select for the time being.
At $ 3.99, thanks to the higher volume, books (on average) earn the same or more than
books priced at $ 10.00 +, yet they gain more readers.
(Maybe only
books priced at or above $ 2.99 count towards sales rank?
Each Regular post will typically have two to three
books priced at $ 0.99 or less (but not free), as well as up to two books priced higher than $ 1.00.
There are over 500,000
books priced at Rs. 99 or less and over 1.5 million
books priced at Rs. 299 or less.
There are very few
books priced at $ 1.99 unless that is a sale price, ordinarily by mainstream publishers.
However, this discount period can get your book listed not only in special sections of Amazon, but also on other 3rd party deal sites that regularly list kindle
books priced at $ 0.99 (like BuckBooks.net).
This is very good news indeed: 70 % royalties on
books priced at roughly $ 1.50 USD at the high end (GBP) to just over $ 1 USD at the low (AUD, HKD).»
Amazon's selection of Kindle Daily Deals includes over 20 top - rated Kindle
books priced at up to 75 % off.
We allow books to be included up to $ 3.99 but most of the success is seen with
books priced at 99 cents.
While they do offer promotions for books at any sale price, they prefer submissions that are on sale: ideally free, but also
books priced at 99c tend to work well also.
Amazon takes a 30 % royalty for
books priced at $ 2.99 and above.
In the top 20, there are 9
books priced at $ 1 or less, and 4 priced over $ 10.
There were more books under $ 9 sold than either
books priced at $ 9.99 or books above $ 10.
Kindle
Books Priced at $ 0.00 — 7,409 Titles Kindle Books Price from $ 0.01 to $ 0.98 — 7.956 Titles Kindle
Books Priced at $ 0.99 — 21,159 Titles Kindle Titles Priced from $ 1.00 to $ 2.99 — 37,202 Titles Kindle Titles Priced from $ 3.00 to $ 4.99 — 47,217 Titles Kindle Titles Priced from $ 5.00 to $ 7.49 — 27,729 -LSB-...]
My only concern is that if this change is being made at the demand of publishers, it probably won't be long until they start demanding that
books priced at 99 cents get taken off, too.
On the other hand, Amazon wanted
the books priced at no more than $ 9.99.
(That cut her royalty percentage under Amazon rules from 70 % on
books priced at $ 2.99 + to 35 % for novels priced below that threshold.)
But when she tried to buy one of her own
books priced at $ 4.99, the price mysteriously showed $ 5.04 on the U.S. store.
And then
books priced at $ 2.99.
I've kept
my books priced at $ 3.99, but one third of that hurts the overall bottom line.
(This is why you see most
books priced at 99cents or $ 2.99.
In my portfolio of project management books, I sell 2 other
books priced at $ 4.99 and in July, I saw a 35 % and 140 % increase in sales however, the total amount earned for the 3 books didn't beat the overall portfolio monthly average.
If you have multiple books then you can afford to have a couple of higher priced books, while having one or two
books priced at $ 0.99 c or $ 1.99 serving as the top of your funnel to more expensive titles.
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It makes more sense to me that
books priced at $ 3.99 have some other factor that contributes both to their price, and to their popularity.
Just think, 53
books priced at either $ 0.99 or FREE!
Amazon wants
books priced at $ 9.99 or less.
«Even if the schools have not adopted digital textbooks, we wanted to give parents the option to have their kids» same textbooks available at home,» said Osman Rashid, CEO and Co-Founder of Kno, Inc. «With digital
books priced at $ 9.99 or below, parents can now finally stop their kids from carrying their heavy backpacks to and from school for less than $ 60 for the school year by supplementing classroom materials with interactive textbooks that can be used at home and on the go.»
He wrote in a blog post a few years ago «we found $ 2.99 books, on average, netted the authors more earnings (profit per unit, multiplied by units sold) than
books priced at $ 6.99 and above.
Books priced at $ 99.99 or higher use the add - on 59999.
One last note here, when you're doing your category research,
books priced at $ 0.99 are probably on promotion so may not be representative of the top - ranking books in the category.
Books of gibberish are listed on Amazon.com for thousands of dollars, with one author claiming his name was used to send almost $ 24,000 to a fraudulent seller «Worthless»
books priced at up to thousands, of dollars on Amazon.com and which contain only nonsensical text have been identified as possible vehicles for money laundering by an author whose name was, he says, used to send almost $ 24,000 (# 17,200) to an unknown and fraudulent seller.
TERMS OF SERVICE: The above features (with the exception of the Guaranteed Freebie Promotion) are for
books priced at $ 0.99 or more.
But sadly they want
those books priced at $ 0.99.
in Q1 2017 we see a significant drop in promotion performance for
books priced at $ 3.99.
If you have three
books priced at $ 3.00, and all three library systems purchase it, you're looking at $ 9.00.
I was browsing another blog and noticed he had a lot of free ebooks and
books priced at that range.99 to 2.99.
It should always read «91600» for
a book priced at $ 16, or «91895» for
a book priced at $ 18.95.
With the Match
Book price at $ 0.99.
If we look at Amazon,
any book priced at $ 2.99 or above makes a 70 % royalty.
Authors: if you have
a book priced at 99 cents or less (that's right, post your free eBooks here, too!)
It was a beautiful hardcover
book priced at $ 28.
If you have
a book priced at $ 3.99, for example, you can offer it at 99c for several days, then at $ 1.99 on the fourth day, then at $ 2.99 for the final day.
A book priced at $ 3.00 in USD would have the add - on 50300.