Not exact matches
For instance: say after the
book is sold and the wholesale
discount and
printing cost is taken out of the
sale, that you are left with $ 4.00 per
book sold.
I've got a thousand or more copies of that
book in my warehouse that I have to sell through before I can do another
print run — and I need to decide if
sales are strong enough to warrant another thousand or more
books, or if I need to go to a small digital
print run, in which case, I might need to raise the price (because small
print runs cost more per unit than large ones, and I have to offer my distributor a 65 %
discount as per our contract).
Amazon is talking about ebook
sales going to authors while
print book sales would go to Hatchette and if Hatchette had agreed to this - showing they cared about their authors - Amazon would go back to large restocking / reorders on
print books,
discounting print books instead of selling them at the absurd high prices set by Hatchette which they've been complaining about, and re-enabling pre-order buttons.
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Germany and France prohibit the kind of deep
discounts on digital
books relative to
print that have lifted e-book
sales in English - language markets.
Publishers offer what seem to be reasonable royalty rates for
print books, but the deep
discount rates are where a huge portion of the
sales will head, and buried in the contract are horrid royalties for these
sales.
When a
print book sale is calculated as the list price times net units shipped minus
discount, subsidiary income is calculated by the actual payment received, period.
For example, Amazon ended the
discount on my
print book this month (heaven only knows why), and my
print sales dipped.
Notwithstanding that I'm anticipating the bulk of
sales being in digital
books, I've priced this out carefully for
print with Amazon's calculator tools, and with a List Price of $ 14.99 - $ 15.99 (typical for my genre), Amazon will
discount to, maybe, $ 12.
Maybe run an eBook promo in that specific country, or
discount your
printed book for a day or so and let the ad be your
sales tool to drive more attention to the
book promotion.
In this case you will pay the
printing and shipping fees for the
book, but no
discount will be applied, meaning you make more margin on these types of
sales since there is no retailer to pay.
Did you know Amazon's
print book sales grew by 15 % in 2016 — and the gain was primarily driven by Amazon's own
discounting on
print?
His explanation for the rise in US trade
print sales in 2015 and 2016 is that in 2015 the large trade publishers» agency contracts eliminated retailer
discounting of ebooks prompting Amazon, in mid-2015, to increase its
discounts on their
print books, instead.