Sentences with phrase «e-books with higher prices»

So if prices rise, authors with that deal don't get paid more for e-books with higher prices.

Not exact matches

It's shocking the devaluation they have with the readers, wanting to push high prices, when we know that we can sell the e-book for a more affordable price without depreciate the author's work.

Asked if the higher pricing of e-books, in the wake of publishers» new agency agreements with Amazon, had also figured in the slowdown of e-book sales, Reidy noted that in the wake of publisher settlements over e-book price - fixing charges in the case with Apple, «I'm not supposed talk about pricing,» but added that «our data says that our pricing is effective.»

Libraries are fine with paying a higher price for e-books than consumers, she added.

Ultimately pilot projects are a great way for the publishers and libraries to promote a few titles in tandem with each other, but the high e-book prices to maintain a proper collection is draining the libraries budgets at an alarming rate.

Apple and the Publisher Defendants recognized that coupling Apple's right to all of their e-books with its right to demand that those e-books not be priced higher on the iBookstore than on any other Web site effectively required that each Publisher Defendant take away retail pricing control from all other e-book retailers, including stripping them of any ability to discount or otherwise price promote e-books out of the retailer's own margins.

The publishers teamed up with Apple, which also wanted to keep e-book prices high, to boost their margins on them, the complaint said.

As a result of discussions with the Publisher Defendants, Apple learned that the Publisher Defendants shared a common objective with Apple to limit e-book retail price competition, and that the Publisher Defendants also desired to have popular e-book retail prices stabilize at levels significantly higher than $ 9.99.

The Publisher Defendants» collective adoption of the Apple Agency Agreements allowed them (facilitated by Apple) to raise, fix, and stabilize retail e-book prices in three steps: (a) They took away retail pricing authority from retailers; (b) they then set retail e-book prices according to the Apple price tiers; and (c) they then exported the agency model and higher retail prices to the rest of the industry, in part to comply with the retail price MFN included in each Apple Agency Agreement.

Here's the message (with names redacted to protect the innocent): Email Subject: Kindle e-book pricing Leave Your Message Here: For the length of your books (the Trader's Tale series) I believe your Amazon Kindle e-book pricing is way too high.

«We believe the lower hardware price will correlate with high e-book and video content attach rates.»

That's important because the Big 5 has been whistling past the graveyard for a decade; trying to convince folks that e-books — and e-readers — are just a passing fad and citing their puny e-book sales as evidence... e-book sales that they have * deliberately * tanked with astronomically high retail prices.

They have been fighting to keep e-book prices high — to the point where they engaged in industry - wide collusion with Apple in an attempt to do so — and they eventually managed to convince Amazon (AMZN) to let them set prices.

Amazon's war with publishers heated up last week with a passive - aggressive letter to customers posted on Amazon.co.uk informing them that the high prices of e-books have been set by publishers and Amazon will continue to fight them.

Amazon also offered authors a «new 70 percent royalty option» for e-books with a list price «between $ 2.99 and $ 9.99,» eliminating the middleman and giving authors higher profits.

If you're looking for something very small and light, and that is also compatible with Overdrive library e-books, the Sony at this price is a compelling choice (I've said before that the Sonys» major problem is their high prices).

Nonfiction e-books are priced higher than other categories, and owing to this factor, the nonfiction e-book category dominated the market in 2015 with a share of 39.59 %.

On a popular Kindle online forum thread titled, «Boycott anything over $ 9.99,» more than 1,200 posts on the subject of high - priced e-books have appeared since the beginning of the year, with many more comments posted since the Kindle 2 e-book reader began shipping on Sunday.

So, instead of tapping into a growing market — which they would see if they would simply look at Authors Earnings and pay attention to the best seller lists on Amazon — they look at how their e-book sales have declined and refuse to admit that high prices and limited available titles might have something to do with it.

The complaint alleges that Apple violated antitrust laws by colluding with publishers to keep e-book prices high.

She also notes that traditional publishers price e-books so high that regular and long - time readers often pass them by in favor or buying indie books with much lower price tags.

Kindle offers a 70 % royalty on books with a list price of $ 9.99, so the royalty on a $ 9.99 e-book can be as high as $ 6.99 (it will be somewhat lower due to the 15 cents per Mb delivery fee).

The e-books that are doing the best are in fact new bestselling fiction coming out with the hardcovers — the ones at the higher price point.

Yeah, I don't see anything fishy with Harper Collins offering higher e-book prices on its own website, there are just too many reasons why they might want to do so, and some of the possibilities are actually really good reasons.

Many analysts felt the original price for the Nook and competing devices would be too high when compared with color - display tablets and related devices that can also be used to read e-books.

While e-book sales have been leveling off as they absorbed the replacement audience for mass market paperbacks — because e-book prices are cheap in mass market territory — the sector of e-books that have been selling the best are the first - run new bestsellers — the ones with the highest e-book prices initially (although those prices come down over time, just like a paperback edition and the e-book prices are lower than hardcover and trade paper usually.)

While publishers can get by with pricing books higher, as with e-books, an indie author will be hard - pressed to sell a print book above $ 15.

That means high e-book prices to protect print; releasing hardbacks and withholding paperbacks; needlessly high audiobook prices; and not working with libraries on e-book prices and lending practices.

The online retail giant expressed its strong disagreement with this pricing but decided to still offer the books to customers who can decide with their wallets whether they want to purchase Macmillan e-books at at what it calls «needlessly high prices».

With the single decision to capitulate to Macmillan, Amazon has opened the floodgates on higher e-book pricing and we can expect that other major book publishers will seek similar increases.

«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.