Sentences with phrase «ebooks cost so»

Michael Hyatt, the former CEO of publisher Thomas Nelson, wrote a 2010 article called «Why Do eBooks Cost So Much?

Book publishers and their hold on the industry are the reasons that ebooks cost so much.

While publishers are the ones who set the price of digital editions of children's books, it's disconcerting that a fixed - page children's ebook costs so prohibitively more than some of the app books that smaller publishers are developing for children that include such features as human - narration, highlighted read along text, touch - screen word pronunciation and foreground spelling, interactive word games, and more.

Not exact matches

They're trying to avoid the crap with ebooks being the same cost (or more) than paper like so many trad publishers are doing.

But I was able to do that and was able to deliver the eBook copies, so it cost me nothing, and able to get reviews for my book that way.

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.

Part of the reason why the adoption is so low is the actual cost of eBooks.

So after seeing a post by TechCrunch on a new ebook creation platform that doesn't cost the user any money, uploads seamlessly from his Google Drive account, and can be tailored... [Read more...]

So after seeing a post by TechCrunch on a new ebook creation platform that doesn't cost the user any money, uploads seamlessly from his Google Drive account, and can be tailored right there on the screen in front of him, I had to try it out.

They were promised that digital textbooks would replace print, and that those ebooks would not only be filled with far more content than dead trees could provide, but that they would do so at a fraction of the cost.

So for a publisher, a little investment of time getting a PDF - ebook workflow added to the production process (and the admin of setting up and monitoring an agreement with a distributor), can provide a very low - cost way to distribute ebooks.

There's A Problem I've written before about how small markets, both English language ones like Ireland and other territories with major markets in similar languages, face challenges when it comes to ebooks: So we have large publishers seeing sales internationally that they can EASILY service at little marginal cost.

Also, technology changes every six months or so, which means that each time I come back to produce files, I have to reevaluate previous production methods to see if they are still the best, are compatible with the current ebook and print standards, and are the most cost - effective.

So the question my wallet has been asking me is, how much should an ebook cost?

So I think Hachette, even with its overhead, could manage the extra cost of paying 100 % the price of ebooks for the time of negociations - provided Hachette does not want the negociations to last until 2015, as it seems the case.

That may change as more so - called digital natives progress into higher education and as ebook reader technology gets better, but for now, 60 % of students would rather pay for a low - cost printed book than use a free digital version.

Since there are no printing or shipping costs to publish an ebook, price your ebook at a low enough cost so that customers worldwide can purchase them.

The new spin on the old theme is that ebooks don't have the limitations on the binding or cost to print and ship like paper anthologies do, so they can include full novels and sell the whole thing at ninety - nine cents.

«Ebook readership was going up, more ebooks were being produced, so we thought why not address that segment at probably one - third of the cost... as opposed to building a big branch library,» Wolff said last week.

Legitimate ebooks cost hundreds of dollars or more to create., so another $ 50 isn't going to deter them.

Just like the phone company has to recover all the sunk costs for switches, engineers, lines (or cell towers), billing systems, customer service etc., and so they charge you for the «free» phone call that bears no incremental costs, so the publisher has to recover their sunk costs in the ebook.

But of course let's not forget there are free ebooks & audiobooks as well, so if we jump into this no - cost bandwagon, than this issue wouldn't be any issue at all.

Notes Mary Wallace Moore of Smyrna Public Library, The cost of purchasing an ebook is still way too high, so I can not provide in depth of selection... that I can in print.»

Ebooks can be distributed at very little cost, so that makes it easy to experiment with the format.

So there's no physical production costs for an ebook, but there are still production costs, even if they seem intangible to the reader.

«Amazon keeps promoting the idea that an eBook should cost much, much less than a hardcover because the cost of producing it is so much lower.

You fail to note that the ebook copy has a far higher profit ratio, no publishing cost, no shipping cost (most ebooks are so small it would take thousands of downloads for the cost to be worth even talking about)

Many ebook vendors charge the cost of a print title plus a certain percentage for the ebook, so librarians will want to find out what the cost of each ebook is in relation to its print counterpart.

With ebooks, people realize that the costs are so low they can effectively get their books into the hands of anyone who wants them.

So when the sale ends, I'll have six $ 3.99 ebooks ranked high on the genre bestseller lists (horror, occult, police procedural) and I expect they'll stick there for long enough for me to make up the money I've lost (for the free days, sale days, and ad costs), plus a tidy profit.

I agree they should cost less than printed books, but to say there is no design involved with ebooks is completely wrong, and I don't see Germaine Greer offering e-versions of her own books for pennies, so it looks like she is just talking crap in an attempt to get a few more seconds worth of fame (again).

There are, of course, no printing costs with eBooks so no high up front costs and there are very low distribution overheads.

What keeps Big 5 ebook prices high are their fixed costs: expensive people working expensively in expensive office buildings in expensive (but oh so trendy) coastal cities.

So when a book is brand new, like Michael Chabon's Telegraph Avenue, the cost of the ebook is $ 9.99 or a bit more.

Meanwhile, the ebook edition is still around but usually costs about three times more than anybody wants to pay for an unknown author, so it hardly sells.

The production and distribution of ebooks has so many positive benefits for the planet while also greatly reducing costs.

There are a lot of similar challenges and opportunities in ebooks — lower costs of transportation and storage and replication, users feeling «virtual» goods aren't «solid» like books and CDs, users willing to pay to customize / enhance the experience, and so forth.

I see it as playing the lottery, so your best tactic is to keep your costs low (ebook self - pubbing) except for your time you put into writing and PR and marketing.

They do not require special equipment or hardware, so schools and libraries incur no additional costs to use our eBooks, which are hosted at epointbooks.com.

Eventually I went back to reading A Dance with Dragons just to get it over with (it cost way more than I'd typically pay for an ebook so I have to finish it).

For authors who have done their entire series with BB eBooks, we can typically make a box set of that series for the cost of a regular eBook formatting (so $ 60).

After all, why would give up 70 % of the takings for less than 25 % of the takings - I'll refer you to Amy Shojai's blog post about legacy Ebook publishing for the numbers: http://amyshojai.com/2011/05/17/tuesday-tips-kindle-ization-2-brass-ring-or-lead-balloon/ Now if someone comes along, and can help me increase my sales by x % at y % cost, so that I increase my profits by z % as Joe put it, I'd be crazy not do go with them.

You can grab Do the Wor k at no cost until April 20th or so as an eBook.

It's a good reason to have a moderate charge for the ebooks, as they do with bestsellers now, so that their extra cost doesn't have to be funded from cuts to services elsewhere.

Likewise, when you buy a book, the actual cost of the phyical object is probably the smallest percentage of the costs that go into producing it, so reducing the cost of a digital book by the same amount results in an ebook that basically costs the same.

You can't deny the eBook has less value than a paperback, and cost less to produce, so please explain to me this thinking — because I don't get it, and as a result, most publishers can rot with their set the price methodology.

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 cost of stocking and selling a single ebook is so close to zero as to be effectively zero. . .

I have a theory that some of the pricier vendors might be more inclined to list books with Amazon rankings that are already decent — so to begin, I submitted my.99 cent sale to a number of no - cost «ebook deal» websites that will advertise a DISCOUNTED ebook at no charge.

Storing ebooks on a server has a cost, but so does running a huge warehouse of physical books.