How can you turn a blind eye to Free Internet and
cheaper ebook prices?
But Amazon has
the cheapest ebook prices.
Not exact matches
Then often the
ebook price is just 2 - 3 Euros lower then than the
price for the hardcover book, later when you can buy the paperback it is usually
cheaper than the
ebook, because that was
priced after the hardcover and since book
prices are fixed, it usually can not be changed easily.
Google is usually trying to sell
ebooks cheaper than any other channel, discounting the books at a pseudorandom way, depending on
price and currency.
People have been burned by low - quality
cheap ebooks and are now wary of buying any
ebook priced at $ 0.99.
The sweet spot It seems to me, as pointed out by Catherine Ryan Howard and others, that the sweet
price for a novel published as an
ebook is currently $ 2.99; sweet as in a decent return for the author, a
cheap offer for the customer and not demeaning to the work.
If I can't find the
ebook version for a
cheaper price, I'll go to the library.
If you
price your
ebook too low — say, 99 cents — he may think: «
Cheap — probably self - published — probably lousy quality.»
With
eBooks prices foreseeable coming down, as smaller publishing houses can sell books
cheaper than any other store, authors, and smaller publishing companies can get wider exposure which is a boon to everyone from the reader, to the author.
I think publishers have been trying hard to convince them otherwise, by regularly
pricing ebooks as much as or in some cases more than paper editions — so yeah, maybe these extended sales might «undervalue» titles to the extent that they remind people that they've been slowly brainwashed over time to expect to pay the same or more for «products» that are
cheaper to produce.
The only other
ebook reader options that Amazon offers include the Kindle Keyboard 3G
priced at $ 139 and the Kindle that costs an even
cheaper $ 69.
That's because of the really high
ebooks prices which are, at least for the popular ones, rarely a dollar
cheaper than print books.
Ebooks: font control, built in dictionary, near instant access to any book, TTS, cheaper ebooks if you focus on indie authors and free library downloads with my Overdrive app, IQreader to track price of over priced B5 published books for when they price drop to something I can afford,
Ebooks: font control, built in dictionary, near instant access to any book, TTS,
cheaper ebooks if you focus on indie authors and free library downloads with my Overdrive app, IQreader to track price of over priced B5 published books for when they price drop to something I can afford,
ebooks if you focus on indie authors and free library downloads with my Overdrive app, IQreader to track
price of over
priced B5 published books for when they
price drop to something I can afford, etc...
Consumers still prefer to buy real books (I mean, if the
price is almost the same or even
cheaper, why buy an
ebook, with all the restrictions about lending it for instance?).
-LSB-...] As anyone who follows digital publishing industry can tell you, publishers have been raising their
ebook prices over the past several years to the point that print books are often now
cheaper than
ebooks.
All the searches on Amazon for Big Five books show an agency -
priced ebook with a highly - discounted print book, often
cheaper than the
ebook, alongside of it.
Due to the nature of the process I really needed to make it an
ebook, because it references a lot of online material — although mine is a lot
cheaper than the
prices you mention above (wow!)
In many ways, I think it is superior to everything else out there (
cheap, comfortable and focused device plus a more or less platform agnostic
ebook store that is very decently
priced).
This will, in effect, allow
ebook retailers in Europe to once again start discounting
ebooks and customers will enjoy
cheaper prices across the board.
eBooks are
Cheaper — Many readers cite the
price of
eBooks as one of the primarily aspects of why they choose to read digitally.
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There is plenty of evidence that consumers want low
prices on
ebooks and they will buy more
ebooks if they are
cheaper.
My argument is that when
eBooks are done right they so much
cheaper than physical books (40 - 50 %
cheaper) that if they were reasonably
priced they'd turn hardcovers into high - end items.
eBooks are much
cheaper than paper books and if the real
price difference was reflected in list
prices people would not be willing to pay the premium for paper books.
Further, e-Books are
cheap compared to the physical books (not always, of course) as most of the
eBooks are
priced less.
And while a $ 9.99
ebook price may be good for consumers looking to buy
ebooks, it's the idea of this becoming a race to make the
cheapest ebook that worries me.
The
price of the
eBook drops with each treeware release, so that it's always
cheaper to buy the
eBook than the available paper copy.
Amazon says to indies, you can only sell on our platform if you
price you
ebooks at your
cheapest price.
Bargain Booksy finds the best deals on
cheap books and
ebooks They offer
pricing starting from $ 25, though it will differ from genre to genre
The
price of your
eBook will depend upon whether your book is a straight text
eBook (most fiction books tend to be straight text books), these are the
cheapest and form the basis of our
pricing structure, or whether your book needs more complex formatting such as images, tables, indexes, (many non-fiction books will be like this).
But right now, we often seem to be trying to defend
ebooks» high
prices in the face of consumer protest out of fear that, once
cheap, they'll never be expensive again.
People are also starting to overlook the
price advantage of buying
cheap eBooks in favor of better quality books.
eBook prices must be
cheaper than the print books sold in magazine stands or bookstores» said Surat Banditraksana, Porar CEO.
This info was quite useful, I'm finding what to
price my
ebook at a difficult question to answer, I guess quite
cheap because it is short, about 27 pages, and my first book.
But unfortunately, I made the mistake of mentioning that bookstores obviously get a piece of the book's sales
price — prompting another comment about how
ebooks are much
cheaper than printed books.
The reasons for this are diverse: more (and
cheap) self - publishing titles are entering the market and publishing houses are testing several
pricing models for their
ebooks, flat rates being one of them.
They'd like
ebooks to always be the same
price or
cheaper than the corresponding paperbacks.
If major competitors are going to lower their
prices to that of the indie
eBooks, then this means that there are even
cheaper eBooks available to the reading public more than ever.
It seems to me, as pointed out by Catherine Ryan Howard and others, that the sweet
price for a novel published as an
ebook is currently $ 2.99; sweet as in a decent return for the author, a
cheap offer for the customer and not demeaning to the work.
Logically you'd think that
eBooks would just be a couple of dollars
cheaper, less the cost of shipping, storage and delivery, not bottom barrel
eBook pricing at $ 0.99.
24 of the 30 «
cheaper»
ebook bestsellers are
priced at just 99 cents, and they are pretty much all by indie authors who will earn millions of dollars this year and turn the membership of the Kindle Million Club upside down.
The very
cheap ebooks indie authors would offer juxtaposed against the publisher's agency up -
priced (many at $ 14.99) and undiscounted branded books created a market opening that allowed the Kindle audience to sample (aside from the free chapter that is standard in
ebooks)
cheap ebook authors for peanuts.
I've always assumed that
cheap ebooks are
priced that way because publishers and authors figure that's how they'll make most money.
They sell badly - edited
ebooks at dirt
cheap prices.
Ebooks were amazingly
cheap to begin with, and then the market for readers took off and the publishers ramped up the
prices.
Ebook publishing is the magic wand that has given indie authors the ability to grow their platform quickly by
pricing cheap or giving away free copies (at no cost to them).
Where to Buy the
Cheapest Ebooks For those who have fully converted over to reading ebooks, the question of price must often
Ebooks For those who have fully converted over to reading
ebooks, the question of price must often
ebooks, the question of
price must often arise.
We don't want to be told that we are miserly or
cheap because we don't think that the convenience of the
ebook format is worth the premium
price that publishers want to charge.
Jon Brodkin of Ars Technica wrote a more thorough explanation of the judge's rationale in his ruling: The central aspect was a clause in Apple's contracts with publishers that didn't allow them to sell
ebooks for a
cheaper price than Apple's, forcing Amazon to raise its
prices and the publishers to adopt a different selling model (the agency model).
The most interesting aspect of it is that their introductory
ebook pricing is in line with the
pricing structure of US - based sites, even though their paper book
prices remain at an Aussie high (to roughly convert Aussie
prices to US dollars just imagine the
price is 10 %
cheaper — and that's about the
price in US dollars).