Sentences with phrase «does ebook revenue»

I think the downfall of pricing right now is that as the ebook industry grows rapidly so does ebook revenue because new entrants are buying books.

Not exact matches

I get more excited over selling an ebook for $ 3 or getting $ 10 in Adsense revenue than I do selling an apartment and making $ 1,500 commission.

The internet has allowed people to earn a supplementary income through writing eBooks, doing Clickbank, and earning revenue from ads placed on their blogs and websites.

Creating an eBook can be done for minimal moneys and if the author has marketing moxie, can generate revenues quickly... then go (or not) to a print format.

Publishers don't want to see revenue disappear because people can simply get ebooks free through libraries, without ever leaving home.

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow auEbooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow auebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

Or, do you view profits from Kindle ebook sales as an important revenue source in themselves?

In any event, today Shatzkin criticized publishers who, having seized control of the pricing of ebooks, are not doing a very good job of using those prices to maximize sales revenue.

Some Japanese publishers have tried and most initiatives have failed as they have done poor market research (mainly not understanding international purchasing habits, poor marketing, or even worse have blindly believed previous eBook booms to include similar sales for manga or comics in general); while others have simply had their stances thaw out hoping to gain revenue streams or to prevent piracy.

They don't make any money in selling ebooks, newspapers, and magazines to earn residual long - term revenue and can not subsidize their hardware.

She said that while she did not believe ebooks would ever hold the complete market, they were proving much more popular in some genres than others and would continue to generate revenue, meaning publishers had to embrace them.

Most ebook piracy can not even be seen as lost sales or revenue, since it assumes that many who do would have paid for it otherwise, or that they even read the book or plan to.

One of the reasons why companies like Energy Sistem struggle is that they only sell the hardware and do not generate any revenue from selling ebooks.

How can they give up their share of revenue if they don't have any revenue from ebooks?

«Audiobooks have been at a higher price point typically, but I don't know if that's going to continue as the business expands further and further, but right now I feel that's where the most revenue is made in terms of book sales versus an ebook.

Most stores are not in a position to sell ebooks and readers directly and must do business with Amazon and Kobo, which undermine's their long - term revenue potential.

This rule is no doubt employed to help recoup sales revenues Amazon loses through lending, especially since there does not appear to be a limit as to the number of times an eBook can be loaned.

I didn't believe that the revenues and royalties I would make from many of my print or eBook titles would justify the cost of the numbers, barcodes, and maintaining them.

I don't even know how to say what I feel about publishers at this point — part of the problem is that they insist on acting as if we are still in the 1800's — they haven't changed their business models in a long time and they really are almost clueless when it comes to looking at the future of books — I wouldn't mind paying more for an ebook or even a paper based book if the author was getting more revenue but it's not about the author at this point it's all about the publisher.

I don't think many publishers are comfortable with the fact that the ebook market in effectively owned by secretive company for which books aren't even a main source of revenue any more.

And, as DBW puts it together, he has told the assembly gathered on that mountaintop that «50 percent (of all U.S. book publishing revenues being ebooks) just doesn't seem doable based on usage dynamics and reader statistics.»

And I think that's backed up by the fact that many ereaders are priced about the same, even those (kobo, iriver, etc) that don't have an ebook store to collect extra revenue from.

Since the retailer doesn't release sales numbers, his mission is to try to use its book sales pages and authors» actual revenue figures to develop a picture of what «s profitable in the Amazon ebook ecosystem and what authors might expect as potential results of their decisions to self - publish or try to traditionally publish.

What does it mean to see that, on average, more daily ebook revenue is flowing to self - published authors than traditionally published authors?

Instead of seeing the ebook market as one that could grow their market in different directions, or offer different opportunities for revenue generation, most publishers saw it instead as a threat to their existing business, and did whatever they could to protect themselves from that threat.

Or, do you plan to create a lucrative new revenue stream by selling your ebook at a competitive price?

What the big - 6 seem to be doing as a result is pricing ebooks in a way that attempts to protect hardcover revenues.

Although the UK ebook market is less than a fifth of the size of the US market in unit sales or revenue terms — Amazon.co.uk still sells more ebooks than any of the non-Amazon US retailers do in the US.

This is what doesn't make sense to me: Tradpub seems to want higher ebook prices to protect print, but then they admit that ebooks make up almost half their revenue, and help to prop up print.

But for the market to develop, children's publishers need to be producing ebooks even when they don't yet represent a major revenue stream.

There's another risk — It is possible that the Kindle gets 90 % of the way there and then another eReader copies most of the good, adds in the few missing features (that Amazon won't add since it wants to preserve its ebook revenue stream), and hits perfection before the Kindle does.

Due to recent changes in the Apple App Store rules, many eBook retailers have removed in - app purchasing abilities from their apps so that they don't have to give a portion of their revenue (30 %) earned to the fruity company.

Do your calculations of relative ebook revenue take that difference into account?

Scardino said that although the rate of ebooks growth was slowing, she did not have a view on when the increase in Penguin's digital book revenues would begin to flatten out.

If print sales do not get a lift but ebook sales continue to rise, when will the revenue problem manifest in that top line revenue figure?

So, how many ebook customers does Amazon have to trash before we figure out they do not care about the ebook customer, only the revenue opportunity that someone else may be getting.

Its ebook market share is higher than Nook's, but we don't know how Kindle revenues compare, though here's our best guess.