Since I know
the ebook cost $ 7.99, I'm starting to wonder why I didn't just buy it, except I've already paid $ 2.
If print cost $ 20 and
eBook cost $ 15 how can you justify that eBook price as worth $ 1?
If
an ebook costs $ 9.99, the people who are willing to pay $ 9.99 or more are going to buy it, and those that are not willing to do so won't buy it.
The plain Cloud Atlas Kindle
ebook costs $ 10, the enhanced one is $ 16.
On the same basis, if
an ebook costs $ 0.99 then the title will get $ 76.68 if it's read 100 times.
Not exact matches
The
cost to create a professional looking
eBook is probably therefore
$ 50 —
$ 1,000 for the majority of cases.
The information in my newest
ebook is worth thousands of dollars, but it
costs only
$ 9.99, and this week, I am giving it away for FREE.
Though Amazon actually eats a loss of an estimated
$ 18 for every Kindle sold due to manufacturing
costs and other factors, the company makes up for it through sales of
ebooks and apps, RBC said.
I frigging love the idea of 25 %
ebook royalties that work out to be more like an effective 12.5 %, and I literally dance in the streets at the thought that all big publisher
ebooks should
cost $ 12 -
$ 20.
It's only
$ 2.99 for the
ebook and has much more info you can use than most «courses» that
cost $ 100s.
Many of my software programs do not work even Adobe Digitial Editions (epub reader) no longer works, so I guess your
ebook sales will drop from iTunes... A
$ 30 Fee for Lion will
cost you
$, 1,000's in new software.
The Amazon Kindle is one of the most prominent
eBook readers in the market with the Kindle with special offers
costing only
$ 119.
Your average
ebook, as priced by a traditional publisher like Hachette,
costs $ 14.99.
I am not going to buy an
ebook, when I could buy the hardcover for just
$ 4 more (I guess it will also depend on whether you are a Prime member, because I forgot about that
$ 4 shipping
cost).
Nelson Wolff is the man spearheading the initiative and said that the entire project will
cost $ 250,000 for the first 10,000
ebook titles.
This resulted in
ebooks going from
$ 9.99 each, or less to them
costing the same amount of a hardcover basically.
It gives you far higher per - book earnings than traditionally published authors are receiving (even those whose
ebooks are selling for
$ 10 +), it gives the readers a deal when compared to most traditionally published
ebooks, and it's often considered a fair price by those who feel that digital books should
cost less than the dead - tree variety since paper, ink, and shipping aren't a part of the equation.
Saying that a book
costs $ 0.00 for Kindle Unlimited subscribers is also deceptive because subscribers aren't purchasing the
ebooks — they're just borrowing them until they return them.
But libraries don't advertise their books as
costing $ 0.00 for members and
$ x.xx for non-members as Amazon does with Kindle
ebooks.
They offer your
eBook and audiobook (and podcasts, too), in their store and others, to customers hungry for free and low -
cost books using a CrowdPricing (
$ CP) system.
The
cost to set up (or upload) your
ebook with IngramSpark is
$ 25, and
$ 49 if you're also planning to publish a print version.
A 99c
ebook in Italy
costs over
$ 3 after local tax!
Using their calculator, I figure conversion
costs to be around
$ 125 for a 60,000 - word book, which is about right for a very simple
eBook.
Total
cost to get an
ebook out there:
$ 0 to
$ 500 (bargain basement editing, cover art, and formatting) to a couple of thousand (professional copy editing, custom illustration, and formatting).
Oyster's subscription plan
costs $ 9.95 per month and provides unlimited access to Oyster's catalog of
ebooks, which they now claim includes over one million titles.
Justine Bylo [00:10:44] Again, it can
cost you anywhere from
$ 500 to a couple thousand dollars if you are doing the hardcover, paperback, and
eBook cover all at the same time.
In all of these scenarios, the marginal
cost of production is not going to be even
$ 1 for a trade paperback and will rarely be over
$ 1.50 for a trade hardcover (obviously the last big brick Harry Potter novels
cost a teeny bit more due to sheer volume of paper needed to print a 750 page novel, but not * that * much more), meaning that if we're talking marginal
cost of production as the difference in price between a paperback and an
ebook, we're not talking about a huge difference in price.
The full version of Jutoh only
costs $ 22 USD, a steal for those who need to format multiple
eBooks.
I'm not sure I'd spend more than
$ 6.99 on an
ebook (which is the most I've ever spent on one) for generally the reasons you listed above and I see the
cost of producing an
ebook (including self - delivery, no use of gas, etc) as lower.
Some don't like its pay - per - book - upload business model, but if you're spending months writing a novel, the
cost is a pittance, at the most
$ 50 per
ebook.
One of the biggest expenses authors face when they publish independently is graphic design and
ebook development, which can
cost up to
$ 1,700.
However, John Gilstrap's Kensington title «High Treason»
costs $ 8.97 in PB at Amazon and
$ 7.39 for the Kindle edition, despite the fact that there's no foiling or embossing on the
ebook version, and once I've read the Kindle copy, I can't give it to my dad, donate it to the Friends of the Library book sale or the local senior center, sell it to my favorite used book store, etc..
Ebooks only
cost $ 19.99, and print - ready files only
cost $ 99!
A bestseller
eBook might
cost $ 13.99, rather than
$ 10.00, for example.
The
cost for a One Crow premade
ebook cover is only
$ 149.
The vast majority of libraries in developing worlds do not carry
ebooks, and most e-textbooks
cost over
$ 90.00.
Many new bestsellers that are hard covered
cost anywhere between
$ 20 to
$ 50, whereas the
ebook versions are often less than
$ 12.00.
Legitimate
ebooks cost hundreds of dollars or more to create., so another
$ 50 isn't going to deter them.
A recent report on pricing from the Douglas County (CO) Library System demonstrated that an
ebook that typically
costs a consumer just over
$ 10 can
cost a library almost
$ 50.
The
cost of listing a Kindle book giveaway is
$ 119, which allows you to offer up to 100 Kindle
ebooks.
While that price point may seem a little high for an unknown author — many self - published authors keep their sales at
$ 4.99 or less, with
$ 2.99 being a fairly standard
ebook price for indie works — given the argument that the
cost of the book is in its initial creation, it makes sense.
A new hardcover
costs anywhere between
$ 20 to
$ 40 and an
ebook normally retails for
$ 9.99.
It makes perfect sense if you are a voracious reader to buy a digital book reader for under
$ 100 and then purchase
ebooks that
cost less then their tangible counterparts.
Since the program launched it
cost $ 79 to get free two day shipping, one free
eBook a month, access to Amazon Instant Video and a ton more.
But in general I personally think that
$ 5.27 is a perfectly reasonable price for an
ebook, and I think most readers EXPECT that an
ebook, with no distribution
costs or retail middle - man to pay, should be less than a paper book.
With the incredible tools available through digital publishing, the
cost to purchase and give away the
ebook for the individuals who fund raised could have been negligible compared to the
cost of a print edition (note: unfortunately, the publisher has set the
ebook edition price of this title at
$ 9.99, higher than the
$ 8.52 per print copy that the protest organizers spent through Rediscovered Books).
A
$ 2.99
ebook in South Africa will
cost the reader
$ 4.99.
You also have to set a minimum price of
$.99 in the
eBook wizard if you want to sell your
eBook (this is the base
cost / delivery fee).
The base
cost of an
ebook cover is
$ 200.
I spent a bit under
$ 260 on production
costs of the
ebook and print versions of Hush Money.