With a 99
cent book sale and paid with a credit card, how can Amazon actually make any money?
Not exact matches
The star performer was hardware, where earnings soared 117 per
cent to $ 27.1 million as Metcash
booked a full six months of
sales and synergy benefits from Home Timber & Hardware, which was bought from Woolworths on October 2, 2016 for $ 180 million.
We buy
books and toys from garage
sales or consignment shops too (10
cents to 50
cents per
book).
I'm going to run a campaign when I release my next
book, a sequel, along with the first
book in the series as well, and I was already thinking of bumping up the
sale prices from my usual 99
cents.
It won't cost you a
cent to track the
sales rank of a
book on Amazon.
64.6 per
cent of total
sales of
books and e-
books are generated in the province of Ontario (English speaking), while 29.9 per
cent of
sales occur in Québec (French speaking).
Both
books are on
sale for 99
cents each on all major ebook vendors, as well as on my Square store.
For Labor Day weekend, a group of authors have come together to offer our
books for
sale at only 99
cents.
One is Christian Faith Publishing, who gives the author 100 % of proceeds from
sales, then author pays them 50
cents per
book sold.
A couple of years ago, Amanda Hocking came on the self - publishing scene with several YA ebooks priced at 99
cents (for
book 1s) and $ 2.99 (for subsequent
books) and had legendary
sales that led to a legendary two - million - dollar traditional publishing deal.
His comments came after the retailer said
sales of physical
books has increased by 5 per
cent during December, compared with the same month in 2013.
At 30 - 60
cents, it's always felt (to me) that you can get more out of giving the novel away for free (basically using it as a loss leader to encourage
sales of other
books, an established and effective technique for many authors publishing series).
The
sale will run from March 20 through April 3, and all Kindle Scout
books will be priced at only $.99... yes, 99 -
cents!
One of my
books actually racked in $ 1,000 per month on it's own with
sales and borrows at the 99
cent price.
I started with a 99
cent book — it generated enough
sales I could invest in making the
book better, getting a better cover, taking the time to re-edit it, etc..
We didn't need to toss our
books into the discount bin of 99
cents just to make a few
sales.
In 2013 the UK market for self - published
books grew by 79 per
cent with 18 million bought by UK readers, despite print
sales falling 10 per
cent overall.
So here's what you need to know: both of my two indie - published novels, Faerie Blood and Bone Walker,
Books 1 and 2 of the Free Court of Seattle urban fantasy series, are currently on
sale in ebook form for 99
cents each.
In the first five months of 2015, publishers» revenues from e-
books sales fell 10 per
cent to $ 610.8 million, according to the Association of American Publishers, compared to a 2.3 per
cent drop in print
book sales in the fiction, non fiction and religious categories (that the industry calls trade
books.)
There's a severe shortage of streamlined pathways for self - published authors to get their
books into libraries, with many authors resorting to simply donating copies of their
books and hoping they get put on the shelves (as opposed to being sold in the 25 -
cent paperback
sale).
Surging ebook
sales now represent an estimated 16.3 per
cent of the overall
book market in Canada, a figure that caught even some industry watchers by surprise.
More importantly may be the data that shows that, despite criticism from the industry, self - published and indie published titles did not destroy
book pricing with their 99 -
cent books; however, the fourth trend did demonstrate that
book prices have taken an overall drop, but this is largely due to high - volume online retailers who can negotiate these prices, not just indie authors who strategize on low pricing as a means to drive
book sales.
Usually one would pay pay between 50
cents and $ 2.50 for every click, but that does not necessarily mean a click will turn into a fan — or convert to a
book sale.
Already in 2015, total
sales in the Flemish
book market had increased only marginally, by 0.2 per
cent to 195.7 million euros.
Sharon Gerlach: Sometimes I offer the first
book in a series for 99
cents or free, and watch the
sales go up for the rest of the
books in the series.
The largest shares of total
sales were reported in the nonfiction (43.5 per
cent), fiction (26.5 per
cent) and children's
books (19 per
cent) segments.
If you are still buying into the garbage of the discount 99
cent book or story, you are causing your own bad
sales.
She hit the zeitgeist of surging e-
book sales and a downturned economy that makes the 99 -
cent book tempting to readers... but Hocking is something else that helped her success.
Book 1 of the Katie & Annalise series, Saving Grace, is on
sale for 99
cents, now through November 15, 2013.
Because 80
cents for a
book is really great for an author's bottom line versus the royalty percentage of the
sale of the
book?
This guy's «
book» has been out for 6 years, has a great platform is either 99
cents or free... and has ZERO reviews and no
sales.
Fairfield Publishing is having another 99 -
cent cozy mystery
book sale and Kindle Fire Giveaway!
Starting in 2008, e-books
sales accounted for just 2 per
cent of the US
book retail market but rose steeply to about 10 per
cent last year, said Mark Tanner, Google eBooks representative in Australia, who like Mr Neil and others, is forging links between his company and local publishers.
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Sale
Self - publishing
sales have grown rapidly, Tamblyn says, and the Kobo Writing Life self - publishing imprint is now 15 per
cent of all the
books it sells.
Mr. Genner pegs e-
book sales at about 17 per
cent or 18 per
cent of Canada's
book market.
Audiobook markets are far more developed in the US and Europe than in Japan, with the products comprising around 10 per
cent of
book sales in some countries.
Over a three - month period, almost 40 per
cent of
books sales for Gone Girl occurred in the week prior and week after the movie premiere.
First, e-
book sales have been flat for the past 18 months to two years, according to Noah Genner, CEO of BookNet Canada, which tracks about 85 per
cent of Canada's
book sales.
Children's titles, available at the Kobo Kids» Store offering 100,000 titles, made up more than seven per
cent of Kobo's overall 2014
book sales.
University of Melbourne publishing and communications lecturer Emmett Stinson said e-books were likely to generate around 7 to 8 per
cent of all
book sales by the end of the year, but might even come close to 10 per
cent.
I don't personally like that price — not much sense having a pulse
sale on a 99
cent book — but it got people looking at it who might have passed me by otherwise.
I can essentially charge the same amount but make the first
book less expensive, maybe $ 2.99 for the first part and $ 3.99 for the second, with a launch /
sale price of 99 -
cent sales on the first.
I'll keep
Book 1 at that price for the first year or so, and experiment with running
sales when I have new releases ready, before rethinking 99
cents as a permanent price.
It is like the 99
book collection
sales, I rarely buy a
book or series of
books for more than 99
cents because I am getting used to that price point.
Sale results so far: I've lost a few thousand bucks dropping my prices to 99
cents and making HH free, but the rankings for those
books were # 6000 to # 10,000.
Something else to consider is if your regular price is 99
cents, you lose the ability to put the
book on
sale (unless you're exclusive with Amazon and able to make your
book free for a two or three day stint).
For the third quarter ended Dec. 31, Canada's biggest
book chain reported a 4.5 per
cent boost in revenue to $ 400.3 million compared with the same period last year, a robust period when
sales surged 13 per
cent.
Boost Your
Sales Rankings — Dropping the price of your book to 99 cents for a short time can help you increase your sales rankings while still generating in
Sales Rankings — Dropping the price of your
book to 99
cents for a short time can help you increase your
sales rankings while still generating in
sales rankings while still generating income.
And on the flip side, the 99
cent area is becoming an area that many regular readers are avoiding or buying when
books they know are «on
sale» from a much higher price.