So while you make six times as much per
copy sold at the higher price, until your book gains traction, it won't sell a tenth as many copies as at the lower price, and you'll almost completely eliminate any chance of having a serious bestseller.
Not exact matches
Indeed,
at press time, 14 of the year's 25 bestselling cookbooks were hardbacks
priced at $ 20 or
higher that
sold more than 30,000
copies each, according to Nielsen BookScan.
The psychology of the situation really matters, as does the fact that the publisher looks rapacious and immoral for
selling e-books
at a
higher price than hard
copies.
But Digital Book World has been
at work on a more accurate picture of how books are
selling, since the typical lower
priced indie ebook may
sell more
copies but actually make less money than a
higher priced, traditionally published book.
I believe that the whole KDP thing has devalued Indie books to an extent that it is not worth getting the 15 % of my sales as borrows, but take them out and
sell more
copies on the other sites,
at a
higher price.
It cites its own studies, which show that compared to an e-book costing $ 15 (a bit
higher than average for an e-book across all digital marketplaces Electronista looked
at), the same book
priced at $ 10 would
sell 1.74
copies for every one
copy at the
higher price.
Often people don't actually have your work, even when they
sell your book on ebay, they are just taking the details from amazon and making a product listing
at a
higher price, so IF it
sells, they'll buy your book and order a
copy... so it's actually free marketing for you.
Let me see if I understand this; when I sign a contract with a publisher, expecting that publisher to properly exploit my work by
selling it in every market possible, and said publisher doesn't do that because they want to keep the
prices of my books
high when Amazon wants to keep them low and
sell more
copies thereby making me more money via volume, I'm supposed to get angry
at Amazon and not my publisher?
A Gamestop exclusive in America, the game's
prices on the secondary market became extremely
high, often over $ 100 — even when Gamestop started printing up more
copies and
selling them
at that
price themselves.