Amazon is training Kindle customers to view even 99
cent ebooks as too expensive when other books can be read for what feels like free.
Not exact matches
As it stands, the vast majority — or 90 per
cent — of publishers are indeed publishing
ebooks, while about 19 per
cent have made their entire libraries available in digital format.
At Amazon and other online retailers prices for an
eBook can be
as low
as 99
cents.
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.
Both books are on sale for 99
cents each on all major
ebook vendors,
as well
as on my Square store.
As I said, it doesn't cost a
cent to upload your
ebooks.
For
ebooks that come in under 10,000 words, authors often choose 99
cents as a price point, and I'm in agreement with that choice.
And don't forget: in honor of this convention
as well
as Clallam Bay Comicon which I'll be attending next week, Faerie Blood and Bone Walker are on sale for 99
cents each in
ebook form.
The lower end of that range is because the retailer has to make its fee
as well, and providing authors with almost seventy
cents on a 99 -
cent ebook leaves them making little to nothing on the sale of an
ebook.
Right now, there's a chance you aren't even
as good
as that self - published author on Amazon who has sold five copies of his 99
cents ebook.
Ebooks are priced at either 60
cents to $ 1.50 per title, or readers are offered a pay -
as - you - read model priced at 1
cent per 2,000 words.
From now until February 24, 2015, Bob's second thriller, Deadly Coast, is available
as a free
ebook download from Amazon, while the debut in the series, Deadly Straits, and the most recent entry, Deadly Crossing, are both on sale for only 99
cents.
When it comes to the lower end of things, currently you can hire an
ebook ghostwriter for
as little
as.005
cents per word, if you don't mind outsourcing through odesk or elance, where you can have an eager foreign friend write it all out for you.
Selling the book
as a 99
cent Amazon
ebook was the turning point.
At 99
cents I am tempted to give it a try, although Vooks don't seem quite
as impressive after Penguin's announcement yesterday of their
ebook vision for the iPad (I want that travel guide!).
Add to that the fact that 38 per
cent of people still have no plans to start reading
ebooks, and print might not be quite
as dead in the water
as people seem to think.
«When I saw that highly successful authors were charging $ 9.99 for an
ebook, I thought, if I can make a profit at 99
cents, I no longer have to prove I'm
as good
as them,» he told the Wall Street Journal.
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.
The poem is also available
as a Kindle
ebook for 99
cents.
tinyurl.com/PlayboyEbooks Playboy announced for their 50th anniversary that they'd release 50 of their best interviews
as 99 -
cent Kindle
ebooks.
Every day Amazon offers a «Daily Deal» on one
ebook — dropping its price for just 24 hours to
as low
as 25
cents!
«Examining the proportion of the Booker backlist digitized prior to 1940, Bilbary found that the number falls to 11 per
cent, with only one title from the first Man Booker winner, P.H. Newby's archive available
as an
ebook.
,» citing $ 4.99 books
as examples and shortly after you will see people pointing out that all
eBooks should be 99
cents.
It almost seems like Amazon has it backwards,
as they are commissioning a live review of each title in the Kindle Singles division while knowing that those titles sell for
as little
as 99
cents, while their
ebook division can charge far more for a title but does not provide the same attention to detail
as the Kindle Singles.
Yes, they might make the latest Big Name Author book 99
cents as a loss leader — but those books are already selling well, even in an indie - dominated
ebook world like we have right now.
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However there are many people who would be content selling a million
ebooks for 99
cents such
as John Locke did and earned $ 300k in 5 months.
But now, a zillion indies have mindlessly copied him, and
as a result, 99 -
cent pricing no longer stands out or moves
ebooks.
To generate the same royalty
as one $ 2.99 sale, a 99
cent ebook must sell 6 copies.
Now that the price point for indie
ebooks is rising to $ 2.99 or $ 4.99, not
as many full - length novels are selling for 99
cents.
Sales of Konrath's $ 2.99
ebook will deliver him about $ 2.10 a copy (Konrath says $ 2.04; not sure where the other six
cents is going...),
as much or more
as he would make on a $ 14.95 paperback from a trade publisher, and significantly more than he'd make on a $ 9.99
ebook distributed under «Agency» terms and current major publisher royalty conventions.
In October 2010 HM Revenue & Customs described the process of supplying «text by electronic transmission» via the internet - such
as Amazon flogging
ebooks on its Kindle Store -
as standard - rated (the 20 per
cent VAT rate).
tinyurl.com/PlayboyEbooks Playboy announced in September that for their 50th anniversary, they'd release 50 of their best interviews
as 99 -
cent Kindle
ebooks.
It's available
as an
eBook on Amazon for 99
cents (at the special URL of GodIsLogical.com), but the primary goal is not to sell it.
As part of this special promotional extravaganza sponsored by Novel Publicity, the price of the Cephrael's Hand
eBook edition is just 99
cents this week.
Several authors I know recommended BKnights
as a good source for 99 -
cent ebooks.
Even more revealing, in the case of
ebooks, Amazon treats every author
as if what is or she created was the sort flimsy, cut - rate trash you might find
as a 99 -
cent store.
Before Apple came along, Amazon dominated the
ebook market by nearly 90 per
cent and was using the typical pricing model with publishers, where it paid half the recommended retail price and then sold it for
as much or little
as it liked.
If you bought a book from Amazon
as far back
as 18 years go, you can add that same title to your Kindle library
as an
eBook, for prices ranging from 99
cents to $ 2.99, and sometimes free.
The facts about
ebooks are
as follows: yes, when Kindle first exploded onto the scene years ago, there were many emerging authors who uploaded their books for 99
cents, knowing that in January, after the holidays, readers would want to read something on their new toy.
In this post we shared over 15 places where you can promote your 99
cent eBook,
as well
as several reasons to consider a 99
cent book promotion.
Five big publishers, together with Apple, are under investigation by the European Commission for allegedly colluding to push up the price of
eBooks by
as much
as 50 per
cent.
I just bought 23 of the 25 books Unbridled Books offered
as part of their 25
ebooks for 25
cents promotion.
You note that print returns «20
cents of profit on each dollar» versus 52.5
cents for
ebooks, more than 2-1/2
as much.
Encouraged by readers to make it available on Amazon, he released it
as an
ebook for 99
cents and the juggernaut was set in motion.
The New York Times recently published an
ebook of reporting on the WikiLeaks story for $ 5.99, and we've written about ProPublica publishing Sebastian Rotella's 13,000 - word piece on the Mumbai terror attacks
as a 99 -
cent Kindle Single, Amazon's new format for inexpensive, 30 - to 90 - page stories.
The Dilbit Disaster is available
as ebook, readable on any device, desktop, laptop or in a browser, for only 99
cents.
Or, go to Amazon's Kindle store to download the entire series
as an
ebook for only 99 cents: How to Answer Interview Questions
ebook for only 99
cents: How to Answer Interview Questions
eBookeBook