Sentences with phrase «discount on the physical book»

The BitLit thing sounds interesting, though I'd kinda like to go in reverse and show them that I own an ebook and get a discount on the physical book LOL.

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Perhaps even more importantly, it allows publishers to maintain the perceived value of a physical book over the often dramatically discounted prices Amazon and other retailers offer on digital titles.

Amazon has implemented a new policy in their physical bookstores, Prime members get a discount on books they purchase, while everyone else pays the list price.

My hypothesis is that when the new agency contracts were negotiated Amazon got deep discount pricing on some or all of the Big 5 physical books.

Service - savvy companies like Barnes and Noble have even offered their customers extra incentives to come suck up the wifi; in B&N's case, the move was a brilliant strategy to bring its NOOK customers into the physical B&N locations by offering them coupons and discounts that were available only after logging on to the in - store wifi, as well as making it a policy that NOOK users could read the full length of any book carried in the B&N digital catalog while they were logged on in the store.

Kindle Matchbook is a program that allows Amazon customers who purchased physical books to be given a discount on the e-book version of the same title.

Discounting your book will not only make it stand out on over-crowded digital shelves, it can also give you a head start on getting your book in physical stores.

On the one hand it reinforces the idea of ebooks being «worth» less than physical books and on the other, the price of physical books is too high, why else would retailers be selling them at such large discountOn the one hand it reinforces the idea of ebooks being «worth» less than physical books and on the other, the price of physical books is too high, why else would retailers be selling them at such large discounton the other, the price of physical books is too high, why else would retailers be selling them at such large discounts.

But with respect to the agency discount, Amazon demands that all non-Big-Six trade publishers sell it their ebook and physical book wares under the old trade discount model, which requires only that Amazon buy inventory at roughly 50 % off the publisher's suggested list price (the discounts vary by publisher and can run as high as 55 %) and is silent on pricing — allowing Amazon to discount as steeply as it wishes to win over customers.

but the ebook market is still tiny, so any discounts would be dependent on the relative power of the companies selling physical books — and indeed other things since the big six publishers are owned by multinational parent companies who sell lots of other things via these stores.