The giant retailer didn't
discuss its ebook pricing strategy but is known for discounting.
We also
discussed ebook pricing and the $ 2.99 price point (and J.A. Konrath) that I blogged about last month.
Episode 5
discussed the ebook price war, how to mend a «broken» scene, and starting your own writing group.
We've
discussed eBook pricing before, and the newest information still supports what we've said before: since you're not paying for printing, binding, and shipping, the price can be justifiably lower and still profitable.
If you want to read more about the existing business models in the ebook industry, take a look at our previous blog post here, where
we discussed ebook pricing models in greater detail.
Not exact matches
Not only does he
discuss of
ebook sales statistics, he also talks about how to
price an
ebook.
Maybe we would be now
discussing «What if Amazon had chosen $ 3 as minimum
price for
ebooks instead of $ 2» but good writers would make a better living already
The previous post in this series
discusses differences between traditional and self - publishing when it comes to speed to market, and the next post
discusses the opportunity to impact your success by setting the
price on your
ebook.
I'm not concerned about the widely -
discussed (and, according to critics, destructive and unsustainable) «race to the bottom»
pricing trend;
ebooks for a buck set bad precedents, pundits say.
Ebooks have revolutionized book publishing in almost every area from editing, marketing, distribution, to
pricing — and in one more but much less often
discussed way.
(this section
discusses pricing for your PRINT book;
pricing for
eBooks and Kindle will be addressed in Part 4).
Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, was the moderator and
discussed his site developing their own best seller list that took the
price of the
ebook into account.
On today's show, we
discussed just about everything we could think of related to
ebook pricing.
Speaking of the market reacting, we
discussed the Agency Model of publishers determining the
prices of
ebooks, rather than the stores that sell them.
At the Digital Book World conference in New York City, two industry leaders sat down and
discussed the semantics of
ebook pricing, and how it is currently affecting the industry and looking into the inner workings.
The Publisher Defendants regularly communicated with each other in private conversations, both in person and on the telephone, and in emails to each other to exchange sensitive information and assurances of solidarity to advance the ends of the conspiracy... directly
discussed, agreed to, and encouraged each other to collective action to force Amazon to raise its retail
ebook prices... took steps to conceal their communications with one another, including instructions to «double delete» email and taking other measures to avoid leaving a paper trail...
In our last post, we
discussed the need to select just the right
price for your
ebook.
In today's Publetariat Dispatch, author and small publisher Alan Baxter
discusses the many factors and considerations that go into
ebook pricing.
Firstly, although you mention the lower
eBook pricing, you failed to
discuss the higher royalty rates which more than make up for the
price reduction (on the author's side).
Among other issues, they
discussed the iPad (of course),
ebook pricing issues and the importance of an author's online platform (or «tribe»).
Penguin's submission added that «while, in addition to purely social matters, general book industry issues and trends were
discussed at high - levels of generality, including the growth of
ebooks and Amazon's role therein, Makinson did so pursuant to antitrust legal advice and avoided competitively sensitive topics like terms of trade,
prices, or confidential competitive matters».
eBOUND CEO, Krystyna Ross,
discusses price differences between the retail and library channels, emerging business models and their effect on
prices, and how Canadian - owned publishers are
pricing their
ebooks.
I've also
discussed the self - publishing side of the aisle, from quality concerns to
ebook pricing.
We
discussed the iPad,
eBook prices, and how authors can succeed in publishing for
eBook formats, especially the Kindle.