Yes it may be less easy today to make a million bucks selling 99
cent ebooks like Amanda Hocking did a few years back but the opportunities are still endless.
Not exact matches
Technically, an indie can put a book out without spending a dime (though hiring an editor, at the least, is recommended), meaning that even 99 -
cent ebooks can result in tidy profits, whereas traditional publishers must put a lot more money into the process and can't afford price points
like that, at least not in the long run.
If you have been waiting for the perfect opportunity, and you
like ebooks, the first installment of this trilogy is on sale in
ebook format for only ninety - nine
cents for a limited time.
I do know authors who do extremely well selling at $ 4.99 with an occasional discount, and then there are authors
like John Locke who was the first to sell 1 million
eBooks and his are all priced at 99
cents.
The new spin on the old theme is that
ebooks don't have the limitations on the binding or cost to print and ship
like paper anthologies do, so they can include full novels and sell the whole thing at ninety - nine
cents.
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.
When you read blog posts and articles about people calling for lower
eBook prices, remember that this is not a call to a universal 99
cents price point, but a wake - up call for the fat cats in the NY publishing houses, who still believe that having an illiterate
like Snooki «write» a book is a better idea than giving an actual writer a chance.
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.
I got a $ 14.99
eBook for $ 1.27, and a $ 12.99
eBook for
like.70
cents because the Euro edition was already discounted with a list price around $ 7.
I sell my
ebooks for 99
cents and I get something
like 35 % Royalty Rate and Amazon handles everything else.
If you have a 99
cent eBook that is not in the exclusive KLL and you would
like them to consider posting it, they require a minimum of five reviews.
On the 70 % option you can't go below $ 2.99... I kinda felt that was too much for someone to pay for an
ebook especially from some unknown author
like me so I went for the 30 % option where I can sell my books for 99
cents.
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.
Kindle users want
ebooks to be at rock - bottom prices,
like 99
cents and stuff.
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.
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.