But many titles sell well for higher prices, and many 99 cent books don't sell despite the price.
Those 99 cent books don't take up much server space, and they also are loss leaders for more expensive items.
Not exact matches
«There are 70,000
books in the British Library with leadership in the title,» the blog reports Furnham remarking, «but most leaders don't succeed, they fail, with a base rate of bad leadership collated from various studies of 50 per
cent.»
Giving away my
books doesn't make much sense (or
cents!)
This is
done by having accounts at multiple sports
books so that you no longer remain a captive to the 20 -
cent line of a single
book.
For example, a 3
cent tax on
book shops doesn't stop anyone from distributing literature, but a 100000 $ tax on printer ink would place an unacceptable barrier in front of anyone who tried to spread their political views in writing.
200 million dollars in
bookings, and we'll
do a hundred and fifty million dollars in revenue this year, growing again by 50 per
cent, as well as building 25 hydrogen fueling stations.
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books studying aging; on top of that they will more Resentful towards you for Daring to Question their Life beliefs on Life and Death by your» 2 -
cents worth knowledge (couldn't give a f...)»
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do feel free to add your two
cents as I have not yet reached that specific section of the
books.
The research also found that although Ofsted says that its inspectors
do not expect «particular frequency or quantity of work in pupil's
books», 34 per
cent were asked to see this type of evidence.
Of those, 80 per
cent said they
did it because they wanted their child to enjoy
books.
When asked to describe when they read a
book of their choice independently at school (in class, in free time, or as a school), 30 per
cent of six - to eight - year - olds said «I don't
do this at all» — and that figure increased to 61 per
cent among 15 - to 17 - year - olds.
The main reason was because it's special time with their parent (78 per
cent), but 65 per
cent also said reading together was fun, 48 per
cent said they got to listen to
books that might have been too hard for them, 36 per
cent said they simply liked the fact they didn't have to
do the reading by themselves, and 35 per
cent said they liked to hear the different voices or talk about the
books with the person
doing the reading.
One third of children aged six to 17 said there was a designated time during the school day to read a
book they had chosen independently (not textbooks), but only 17 per
cent do it every or almost every school day.
In his recent
book, Don't Send Him in Tomorrow, he discusses competing theories for why special schools have much better inspection outcomes (92 per
cent good or outstanding) than mainstream primary or secondaries.
If a regular mass
book got to those shelves or into a ten
cent bin in the front of a store, it was because it didn't sell and the store wanted to get ride of it.
Where 99
cent novels seem to be the way to go on Kindle, Kobo doesn't use
books as a «loss leader» — eBooks are the ONLY thing we sell, and our prime real estate needs to be dedicated to
books that we can actually earn money on.
If you price a
book at 99
cents, what
do you think your clients are going to think not only about the
book but potentially about your services?
As a reader, I already don't like many things about Amazon... namely the fact that I can't «rent» a
book for 99
cents instead of buying it for $ 9.99, and the fact that «ownership» of an e-
book does not come with the traditional rights of ownership (i.e. to give / sell the
book so someone else when you are finished).
As the article describes, it's easy to
do this with Amazon, especially with.99
cent books.
Of course, earnings depend on units sold, not simply earnings per unit sold, so, yes, if you can sell oodles of
books at 99
cents, you can
do well for yourself.
«Hey, I know you don't know me, but I really need your help and I figure it can't hurt to ask: please buy my
book (it's only 99
cents right now!)
Here's a video I
did last year talking about how to get your ebook listed for free at Barnes & Noble and Amazon (where the lowest price you can list a
book for is technically 99
cents).
I
do think it means a little more when you're selling most of your
books at 5 dollars instead of 99
cents as some of the indies on that list have
done.
In other words, charge 99
cents for your
book, and sell it to a few hundred million people, and you're going to
do alright.
If 99
cent books were going to destroy the nascent ebook industry, I would think that Project Gutenberg would have
done it by already.
We didn't need to toss our
books into the discount bin of 99
cents just to make a few sales.
Sending out 1 MB or less digital
book files
does not cost but a fraction of a fraction of a
cent.
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.
If you don't mind spending the 10
cents e-mail fee Amazon charges, you can even e-mail these
books to your Kindle without hooking it up to a computer.
It's what you're
doing when you price your
book at 99
cents or $ 2.99.
Usage restrictions and price differentials
do not exist for physical
books, which libraries sometimes can buy for up to 40 per
cent off their shelf prices.
Or, if you're as
done with Halloween as I am, try out some superhero titles: Ultimate Comics Wolverine vs. Hulk for $ 1.99 or, for younger readers, a Batman picture
book, Batman Classic: Fowl Play, for 99
cents.
The ebook reader might be enjoying itself as the gadget
du jour, but piracy in the ebook world could be on the up as a result, with 31 per
cent of consumers who read ebooks admitting that they download pirate copies of
books.
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 think it works to get you into the system to get eyes on your
book... Email me what you
did, if you want and I'll give my two
cents?
This fall I decided that I would experiment by putting two of my
books back into KDP Select (
books three and four of the series) and shifting back to
doing free rather than 99
cent Kindle countdown promotions of those
books.
I also never buy my
books from Amazon, so at the moment they don't make a
cent from me, and again, probably many others.
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I can go in there and find a
book that didn't sell well two years ago, brand new, being cleared from a publisher's warehouse, for 99
cents or $ 1.99.
The Sword and the Dragon (The Wardstone Trilogy
Book 1) by M. R. Mathias 4.3 stars — 482 Reviews Kindle Price: 99
cents Text - to - Speech and Lending: Enabled Don't have a Kindle?
And you can promote it to your heart's content, sell it for 99
cents because Locke
did that, and still no one will buy it because they will look at the sample and think, «Nope this
book isn't for me.»
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Just my two
cents, but I find it hard to believe that print
book purists don't accept that there are some amazing opportunities with digital publishing.
Do I just go with the norm in the self publishing industry and price my
book at $ 0.99
cents or $ 2.99?
I'm waiting to actively
do marketing until I have more than one
book out, but after the 90 days I ended up moving to 99
cents just because otherwise the
book was invisible.
With so many people looking for 99 -
cent e-book deals and other cheap ways to read, how
does one sell audio
books which are — sometimes — even more costly than the paperbacks?