Sentences with phrase «e-book at no charge to»

Not exact matches

Amazon enables overseas purchases (and charges an extra, unjustified $ 2 on every e-book purchased outside the USA), and Kobo quickly built relationships with overseas vendors, enabling Kobo users to buy e-books in their local currency (often at lower prices than in the US), and Sony makes no distinction about US versus non-US buyers, so Sony users can purchase anywhere.

So it was an easy decision for the clients to participate and benefit: Trident would only charge its customary commission based on revenues received by the authors, and Trident would not become an e-book publisher, profiting at the client's expense, being a rights holder, and finding itself potentially in an adversarial position with authors.

So, the book industry is basically saying they'd prefer to proceed in the more generally accepted capitalist format: you charge a lot up front to recoup initial marketing or R&D or production costs, and the price diminishes over time — or, as I think will be the case with e-books, you charge too much at first, figure out no one's going to buy the darn things at 15 balloons, and settle in at $ 9.99 within a few years.

This is also the place where you can post request for an e-book that will be made available to you at the most nominal charges.

I don't actually know if they're still enrolling books in it at all, now that the person in charge has left B&N, but when I scheduled mine (almost 2 months in advance), the «rule» was that the book had to have never before been available as an e-book, and you had to put it up exclusively for Pub It for its first month.

On the one hand, charging the same price (or more) for an e-book as a hardcover seems ludicrous, but at the same time, the publishing industry has long struggled to survive, as there is little if any money in books these days.

Now let's take a look at how much three independent booksellers are charging for the same e-book, via their partnership with the Google eBookstore: Alibris will sell it to you for $ 18.17, Powell's would like $ 24.81, and Joseph Fox Bookshop (a small indie in my hometown of Philadelphia) wants $ 27.95.

Recently, I sat down with Ian Freed, an Amazon vice president in charge of the Kindle, to get a sneak peek at the new Kindles and discuss e-books and the Kindle business in general.

Under the retail model, which print books are all sold under and some e-books are still sold under, the publisher sets a «list price,» charges the retailer some percentage of that price (usually around 50 %), and the retailer is then free to sell the book for the price they choose: at the list price, at some discount, even at a loss if they want.

They aren't looking at the number of indie authors who are able to live off of their earnings — and do so by charging well below the $ 9.99 price that seems to be the cut off for most e-book buyers.

This reminds me of how the head of MacMillan — I think that's who it was — back at the start of the agency pricing debate tried telling everyone that publishers had double charges on editing, cover design and layout, among others, when it comes to e-books and print books.

If you're wondering about how much to charge for your e-book, let me take a moment to beseech you to please price it at least at $ 2.99.

When Amazon began selling e-books, it charged $ 9.99 for many of them, often selling at a loss to fire Kindle sales.

It's the other terms of the deal that he was swayed by: for example, the fact that Amazon was going to come out with an e-book version within a matter of days after the book was finished, and then follow that quickly with a paperback — and that both were going to be sold at a cheaper price, instead of the traditional industry's approach of trying to charge print prices for electronic books.

«After carefully weighing the evidence, the court agreed with the Justice Department and 33 state attorneys general that executives at the highest levels of Apple orchestrated a conspiracy with five major publishers to raise e-book prices,» the assistant attorney general in charge of the DoJ's antitrust division, Bill Baer, said.