Sentences with phrase «ebook retailers charge»

The good news is not all online eBook retailers charge delivery fees.

Sorry, but when no other ebook retailer charges an ebook download fee and Amazon charges one that, based on its AWS fees, indicates a markup in excess of 10,000 %, I don't think about business models.

«Sorry, but when no other ebook retailer charges an ebook download fee and Amazon charges one that, based on its AWS fees»

Not exact matches

Royalties (on a $ 3.99 ebook) DIY: typically 70 % of $ 3.99 = $ 2.79 Distributors: (legit ones like Smashwords and D2D) typically 10 % after retailer cut = 90 % of $ 2.79 = $ 2.51 Sharks: 50 % royalty after retailer cut = 50 % of $ 2.79 = $ 1.39 Note: DIY your author copies are free (which is important for giveaways and reviewers) but the sharks charge you for copies of your own book.

For eBooks sold via the wider network, the commission charged by the online retailers will be deducted prior to calculation of your Author Earnings.

And just to comment — iBook is, presently, the only major eBook retailer that still requires an ISBN (and that only if you'll be charging for the book, free items don't require it).

While Vellum's price tag is supposed to let authors make one version of their ebooks that look streamlined and professional then upload it to all retail platforms, the price of the service is fairly close to what some formatters would charge to produce the different file versions of the books, and all the author has to do there is email the original document of the book without going through the laborious process of formatting it within the app.

Major eBook retailers currently charges less tax for customers in the UK because they are based in... [Read more...]

Joaquín Almunia, Vice-President in charge of competition policy at the European Commission, said «While each separate publisher and each retailer of ebooks are free to choose the type of business relationship they prefer, any form of collusion to restrict or eliminate competition is simply unacceptable.»

Major eBook retailers currently charges less tax for customers in the UK because they are based in Luxembourg, where the VAT is on average 3 %.

EBook distributors charge a percentage of royalties for their services, but the ease of keeping track of sales across all platforms, as well as access to many smaller eBook retailers, may well be worth the EBook distributors charge a percentage of royalties for their services, but the ease of keeping track of sales across all platforms, as well as access to many smaller eBook retailers, may well be worth the eBook retailers, may well be worth the cost.

At the time, it was thought that if all retailers charged the same price for eBooks, there would be more competition in the field.

With its outrageous download fees for ebooks (megabyte for megabyte, over five times more expensive than Verizon cell phone data charges) and the low royalty it pays on books outside a narrow price range ($ 2.99 - 9.99), Amazon is probably earning double the profits on ebooks as competitors such as Apple or various national ebook retailers.

Hachette only makes new ebooks available to some libraries in a pilot program, and charges more than retail price.

«Agency pricing» has been, since its inception, nothing more than a means to control the retail price that Amazon, not Apple, can charge for an ebook — a means to break Amazon's strategy of using ebooks as loss - leaders to sell the Amazon Kindle.

Hi Alice, My main reasons for doing it myself are: * You only pay 1 middleman i.e. Amazon — if you go through someone else you pay them as well as Amazon / other retailers * Ease of updates and they are also free — some of these ebook publishers will charge you to update It's really easy to do your own files now, use Scrivener or another package.

With the new agency approach, retailers «lost their ability to compete on price, including their ability to sell the most popular ebooks for $ 9.99 or for other low prices,» charged the DOJ in its complaint.

They also charge the one of lowest commissions of all eBook retailers.

All eBooks purchased from your tolino book retailer are stored securely and permanently in the secure tolino Cloud free of charge.

Kindle MatchBook will allow Amazon customers to get an ebook version of physical versions bought through the retailer in the past, with titles either being offered at no charge or for between $ 0.99 and $ 2.99 each.

As BookBaby adds new stores to its retail lineup, every eBook is delivered to the new store — absolutely free of charge.