They'd pay the publisher their portion of the
full digital list price, which means every bundle sale would be made at a loss.
The capacity of a service like Perlego to account for the
set digital list price of content, as set by the publisher, makes for a stronger publisher - platform relationship.
That $ 9.99 price point involved Amazon taking a loss on some new - release bestsellers and selling others at breakeven, since most of the «copies» sold in the Kindle Store cost Amazon something in the $ 9 to $ 13 range, based on a wholesale pricing structure that involved a 50 % discount
on digital list pricing.
The promotional price can be free, 99 cents, $ 1.99, $ 2.99, or $ 3.99, but must be at least a 50 % discount off the
regular digital list price set at Amazon.
By checking a box, the user would now have that file up for sale at a predetermined price stipulated by publisher - retailer contracts — say 50 %
of digital list price.
Promotional List Price options must be at least 50 % lower than the
regular Digital List Price for the Kindle MatchBook program to be a compelling discount for readers.
In wholesale model today, publishers set
a digital list price, but the retailer sets the final price for ebooks.
Other subscription - based business models cut the text into multiple parts and pay certain percentage of
the digital list price based on the length of usage.
You might not be paid based on
the digital list price, but based on the subscription fee.
We work with Google based on wholesale model: publishers set
a digital list price, but in the end the retailer (Google) sets the final price for ebooks.
Our algorithm tries to keep prices in line with
the Digital List Price.
Like its companion volumes, Judge Dredd: The Cursed Earth Saga and Judge Dredd: The Day the Law Died, this book has a «
digital list price» of $ 6.99 but is currently discounted to $ 5.59 on Amazon.
However, if you dip down to the second ten books, most of the usual titles show up — The Walking Dead, The Hedge Knight, Stephen King's N. Those New 52 books are all discounted from the «
digital list price,» but they aren't listed on the deals page, so it's not clear what pushed them all into the top ten this week.
We set
the digital list price, and we don't have control over the consumer price.
If
the digital list price is $ 14.99, then the resale price would be $ 7.49.
If you were a genre author offered a $ 100k advance earning 17.5 % royalties off of
the digital list price, and your ebook is priced at $ 4.99, you earn $ 0.88 per ebook sold.
You'll be required to specify a retail selling price, often referred to as
a Digital List Price.
Smashwords will pay authors and publishers 42.5 percent of
the digital list price (set by the author) for book sales through Amazon.
They pay 5 percent of
the digital list price per download code, with a minimum charge of $.25 and a maximum of $ 1.50.
S&S can now price some ebooks high, knowing that Amazon has room to discount, and they can go to the buyers at their major accounts with
the digital list price to show their support.
Smashwords» authors and publishers will earn royalties of 46.75 percent of
the digital list price of their book sales on Shortcovers, nearly tens times the royalty rate most traditionally published print authors earn on mass market paperbacks, and about four times higher than royalties on hardcover books.
For example, if you are earning a 35 % royalty for sales of your digital book at its regular
Digital List Price, you will earn a 35 % royalty on Kindle MatchBook sales calculated at the Promotional List Price.
For each sales partner, shows: business model, royalty rate %,
digital list price, quantity sold and royalty earned
The digital list price is $ 7.99 and the discounted price it $ 6.39.
Brawn is a pre order and ranked in the top 50 of romances at Kindle with
a digital list price of $ 8.75 and $ 6.65 discounted.
For example, if you set the regular
Digital List Price of your book to $ 3.99, your Promotional List Price options for that book will be $ 1.99, $ 0.99, or free (because the $ 2.99 option is not a 50 % discount off of $ 3.99).
Let's talk about a hypothetical wholesale model title with
a digital list price of $ 25.
We set
the digital list price, and we don't have control over the...