Sentences with phrase «cost of the ebooks sold»

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Though Amazon actually eats a loss of an estimated $ 18 for every Kindle sold due to manufacturing costs and other factors, the company makes up for it through sales of ebooks and apps, RBC said.

Instead of selling ebooks for a one - time cost and allowing libraries to lend these ebooks in perpetuity,... Read more >

It gives you far higher per - book earnings than traditionally published authors are receiving (even those whose ebooks are selling for $ 10 +), it gives the readers a deal when compared to most traditionally published ebooks, and it's often considered a fair price by those who feel that digital books should cost less than the dead - tree variety since paper, ink, and shipping aren't a part of the equation.

However, John Gilstrap's Kensington title «High Treason» costs $ 8.97 in PB at Amazon and $ 7.39 for the Kindle edition, despite the fact that there's no foiling or embossing on the ebook version, and once I've read the Kindle copy, I can't give it to my dad, donate it to the Friends of the Library book sale or the local senior center, sell it to my favorite used book store, etc..

Hachette argued that the landscape for e-book sales had changed positively since the adoption of the agency model in 2010, writing, «Two years ago, Amazon effectively had a monopoly on the sale of eBooks and eReaders, and was selling products below cost in an effort to exclude competitors.

Using print - on - demand (POD) technology, they can avoid printing books until they are ordered, meaning no print run costs and no warehousing expenses; ebooks, of course, can just be sold directly via Amazon and other outlets.

I've had my ebook out for just over a week now, and have already sold enough enough copies to break even on the cost of creating the book, which is great!

While Amazon originally worked under the wholesale model, which afforded the retailer the opportunity to sell ebooks at less than their cost in order to push sales of their Kindle e-readers, the alleged collusion between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers actually refers to their switch to an agency pricing model, which allowed publishers to set the price of the ebooks for the retailers.

For the cost of a typical best - selling hardback book, you could buy ten ebooks.

If you upload your print and / or ebook to the various retail channels through their distribution process, they will take a portion of each sale: «Dependent upon wholesale discount, IngramSpark publishers receive 45 — 70 % of their list price on print titles sold through the distribution channel, minus manufacturing costs (some markets may vary).

By delaying the Overdrive Kindle release still further but not that to Amazon, publishers sell more ebooks on Amazon and recoup some of the added costs that Amazon has forced on them.

You also have to set a minimum price of $.99 in the eBook wizard if you want to sell your eBook (this is the base cost / delivery fee).

Some of this is sunk cost, some is ongoing, but unless you believe (as I do) that for now the best way to sell ebooks is to give them away in order to increase print - book sales, then there's no good reason to charge these costs to the ebook's balance sheet.

Think of how many $ 3.99 [footnote] * the ideal price for an ebook according to a Smashwords study [/ footnote] books you're going to need to sell to make back your costs.

The future with an enforced «everybody selling at our selected price» future means Amazon and B&N sell less Kindles and Nooks because the book lovers are going to see the discounted HC at $ 18 and compare that to an eBook at $ 15 (plus cost of device) and deem it not worth buying a Kindle or Nook edition with its limitations.

Ebooks now cost 5.9 percent less on average than in 2015, with the average ebook selling for $ 6.60 (US$ 7.48) instead of $ 7.01 (US$ 7.95).

There is still a distribution cost associated with an ebook if a publisher is selling through a retailer like Amazon and it is often more than the cost of distribution of a physical book.

Agent David Miller floated the idea of using technology to enable people to buy books, such as by selling ebooks for # 1 or # 2 and including a QR code as a voucher that could be used to redeem the cost of the ebook against a printed book.

As I said in Why Ebooks Must Fail and Advances Must Align to Risks, ebooks are currently sold with no advance cash payments and have the same discounts as print, leaving publishers with the onus of huge advance costs and only a trickle of income from individual Ebooks Must Fail and Advances Must Align to Risks, ebooks are currently sold with no advance cash payments and have the same discounts as print, leaving publishers with the onus of huge advance costs and only a trickle of income from individual ebooks are currently sold with no advance cash payments and have the same discounts as print, leaving publishers with the onus of huge advance costs and only a trickle of income from individual sales.

It costs Amazon almost nothing to make and distribute 100 copies of an ebook file to sell to 100 different customers.

«Amazon's pro-consumer pricing meant that to enter the ebooks market Apple would likely be forced to sell at least some ebooks near or below its wholesale costs for an extended period of time.

When Apple allegedly approached the publishers about switching to an agency model in order to prevent Amazon from selling ebooks at what was often below cost in order to encourage the sale of Kindle readers, Amazon lost the option to sell ebooks at its previously advertised $ 9.99 price point.

The lawsuit alleges that Apple and five of the publishers colluded to artificially raise the price of ebooks in 2010 when the iPad was introduced in order to force Amazon to stop selling ebooks at or below cost.

We'll use $ 2.00 desired royalty per eBook and royalty rate of 70 %, plus a delivery and handling cost of $ 0.15 per eBook sold.

The marginal cost of selling an ebook is basically zero, whereas you have to actually print paper books.

There's no incremental cost for each ebook sold in this fashion, and inherently there would be no fear that the pricing of the ebook side of the bundle would cannibalize print sales.

Given that big publishers keep the prices of eBooks artificially high (they'd sell millions of $ 2 eBooks, but I suspect their $ 20 printed complements wouldn't look very appealing to consumers), small publishers have exploited the low production and distribution costs to flood the market with $ 1 — $ 3 eBooks.

A great number of Publishers, especially Digital Publishers are seeking a trustworthy and cost - effective eCommerce solution for selling eBooks while protecting them.

Instead of selling ebooks for a one - time cost and allowing libraries to lend these ebooks in perpetuity, HarperCollins amended its terms to limit a purchase to 26 loans.

While the Big - Five published works make money, the author gets a small share of what the publisher makes regardless of how production costs are lower to produce eBooks to sell on Amazon.

That's the key underlying point, in fact, to the whole argument: Amazon could sell ebooks for $ 9.99 and break even or make a bit of money even if they pay their wholesale pulp brink price to the publishers, and the publishers make money on the ebooks even if they do take some discount, because ebooks cost nothing on the margin to produce.

Moreover you can publish and sell as many copies of your eBook as you want without any additional cost at all.

Amazon has just cut the price of the Kindle 2 in the US, suggesting the intermittent supply problems the retailer experienced may have finally been resolved, or that it's angling to sell more units of the ebook reader by reducing the cost.

The digital eBook being seen to have a lesser value due to no print, storage or distribution costs being associated with the selling of eBooks.

Because after you've paid all the costs to get to the point of having an ebook to sell, everything after that is essentially free.

Given the size of an ebook file, if your Internet bandwidth costs are starting to rise, then you're already selling millions of copies.

To cover the costs involved in running the site, I started selling small PDF ebooks containing lists of freelance writing markets in various niches.

The cost of stocking and selling a single ebook is so close to zero as to be effectively zero. . .

If you pushed me for a recommendation based on what I see in these data, I would say, after reminding you of the insurmountable shortcomings contained within it: If you plan on selling ebooks solely or primarily at Amazon and the opportunity cost of your time is greater than zero, you might want to sign up with submit to (and hope you are offered a contract by) an Amazon imprint.

Now that we've spent 5 years paying you about $ 15 per ebook we sell for $ 10, just to get customers used to expecting to pay only $ 10 for an ebook, regardless of how expensive the physical book costs, would you mind accepting only $ 3.50?

I am all for amazon selling whatever for whatever $ amount they want — but they are not involved in how much the content COST the publisher (how much the author is being paid) J.K Rowling's latest or the newest in the DaVinci code series may cost a publisher considerably MORE$ $ than average (in advances or per copy royalties or % royalties) and Copyediting a 1000 page book costs more than a 400 page one — Amazon isn't just saying that they want to sell ebooks for no more than $ 9.99, they are saying they want to pay no more than (whatever %) of $ 9.99 per copy sCOST the publisher (how much the author is being paid) J.K Rowling's latest or the newest in the DaVinci code series may cost a publisher considerably MORE$ $ than average (in advances or per copy royalties or % royalties) and Copyediting a 1000 page book costs more than a 400 page one — Amazon isn't just saying that they want to sell ebooks for no more than $ 9.99, they are saying they want to pay no more than (whatever %) of $ 9.99 per copy scost a publisher considerably MORE$ $ than average (in advances or per copy royalties or % royalties) and Copyediting a 1000 page book costs more than a 400 page one — Amazon isn't just saying that they want to sell ebooks for no more than $ 9.99, they are saying they want to pay no more than (whatever %) of $ 9.99 per copy sold.

So is higher cost per book, plus loss of KDP Select benefits a price the author wishes to pay to possibly get their print editions in B&N stores after a sufficient period of time selling ebook editions through B&N Nook?

The huge difference being that Amazon sells eBooks below the cost of regular books in stores, and thereby killing of businesses.

Prior to agency, Amazon was giving up almost the entirety of their margin on Big Five ebooks, and selling them on average at cost.)

Customers have long asked for an opportunity to acquire their eBooks at a discount when they already own the physical copy and if Waterstones was to start selling bundles priced roughly equal to the cost of a hardcover book it would give them a major edge in marketing alone.

I redid the spreadsheet to check — the only noticeable effect was a three - quarter - percent gain in gross $ sales for Small / Medium Publishers... from the non-trade Textbook & Academic segment, mainly, made up of rarely - selling ebooks that cost hundreds of dollars each.

This is the almost perfect example of how one might expect a pure ebook play to develop over time, publishing ebooks to a time sensitive market while selling the rights to someone else for a paperback edition, enabling them to keep stock costs lows and cash flow high and letting someone else worry about the odd economics of the traditional model!

With a roughly 90 % share of the ebook market, Amazon was selling ebooks below cost in what could only have been an move to destroy what little competition it then had.

For ebooks sold concurrently with a new hardcover release, cost of the ebook must be on par with the portion of nontangible cost of the hardcover counter part.

It's also worth noting that the vast majority of authors fall short on best practices (witness the low adoption of ebook preorders, even though preorders are proven to sell more books, or witness the large number of self published authors who design amateur - looking cover images despite the dearth of low - cost professionals who for $ 200 or less can make their cover look amazing).