Sentences with phrase «ebooks cost publishers»

eBooks cost publishers far less to produce, hence the «correct» price is lower than the paperback, always.

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

Other major publishers may be content to reap record profits off the growth of ebook sales while paying authors practically nothing for digital books with far lower production and distribution costs, but we wouldn't feel right doing that.

I agree that if the publisher has already published the print book, the cost of creating an ebook is greatly reduced.

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.

Publishing an ebook that started as a print book is cost effective for both indie publishers and traditional publishers.

Your average ebook, as priced by a traditional publisher like Hachette, costs $ 14.99.

Publishers keep saying that they do not see a correlation between the high cost of ebooks and the overall decline of ebook sales.

While traditional publishers are locking said gates and gouging prices of ebooks, readers all over the world are embracing new work from new writers at a fraction of the cost.

For creating and distributing ebooks a publisher's biggest costs can be in the time and effort its staff take to become familiar with the options available and their technicalities.

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.

Publishers are increasingly annoyed because while there are some cost savings involved in eBook production versus print production, they still have the same overhead, including acquisitions, editorial, marketing, sales and production (if not printing).

Ebooks have none of those added costs, which is why they should be less regardless of the advance paid to the author or other expenses the publisher incurs in bringing a book to market.

To address the needs of publishers who want to embed fonts into eBooks, Monotype Imaging is introducing a simple and low - cost font licensing model for eBooks.

My point — and their's — is that the publishers» arguments that ebooks «cost more than people think» is ridiculous.

Since those publishers were forced to abandon the «agency pricing» model, in which the publishers dictate to the retailers how much the book will cost, they have renegotiated with something called Agency 2, which essentially lets the retailers set their prices for ebooks as long as the total discount over time doesn't exceed thirty percent.

While Amazon originally worked under the wholesale model, which afforded the retailer the opportunity to sell ebooks at less than their cost in order to push sales of their Kindle e-readers, the alleged collusion between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers actually refers to their switch to an agency pricing model, which allowed publishers to set the price of the ebooks for the retailers.

In order for publishers to release more ebooks, however, they have to be able to take a calculated risk, something they can not do — despite the vastly lesser cost of producing an ebook over a print edition — unless they believe that readers will come through and buy ebooks.

If you upload your print and / or ebook to the various retail channels through their distribution process, they will take a portion of each sale: «Dependent upon wholesale discount, IngramSpark publishers receive 45 — 70 % of their list price on print titles sold through the distribution channel, minus manufacturing costs (some markets may vary).

It's then up to the publishers to determine how much the ebook will cost, and in many cases, the ebook is made available free for having purchased the print title.

By delaying the Overdrive Kindle release still further but not that to Amazon, publishers sell more ebooks on Amazon and recoup some of the added costs that Amazon has forced on them.

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).

Ignoring the question of whether price should be based on cost, which is a never - ending issue in business economics, the simple fact of the matter is ebooks aren't free for the publisher to provide.

If getting published traditionally doesn't especially help you to get your books on the shelves of stores (unless you are talented, awesome, hard - working, and lucky enough to be a Jim Butcher), then you've got a legitimate reason to question whether you want to roll the dice with traditional publishers (who absolutely offer many great advantages), or get 70 % royalties on your indie ebooks and get paid 80 % of your print book's list price (minus the cost of POD printing) with your print - on - demand book via Lightning Source and their 20 % short discount option — which gets you right into Amazon.com and other online bookstores, just like the big boys do.

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.

And although the PPB costs are eliminated, there are still various costs associated with publishing an ebook, such as cover design, layout & formatting, editing (professional), marketing and other miscellaneous costs (legal, distribution, author assistant etc) all which will be shouldered by the author (or publisher).

The biggest houses may shrink some as ebooks grow, but the higher margins involved and the lower overhead costs associated with producing and shipping physical books may actually increase publishers» margins and having money to pay authors in the form of advances will remain a significant advantage for publishers in pursuing the biggest authors.

eBooks have gained a huge acceptance and popularity due to being cost effective and convenient for publisher and reader both.

These provide reliable publication that can cost you much less than you'd pay a vanity publisher (many of the ebook - only options are free) and in addition make your book easy to order online and in bookstores (though again, because of these services» business policies, it's unlikely that you'll have bookstore presence).

Jay, I respect your point of view, but I think your a bit naive if you really think that ebooks cost only 10 % less then physical books to produce and distribute, but thats your opinion, I am assuming its due to information your publisher gave you to prove how bad they are being screwed by lower ebook prices.

For example, he notes that «low - cost / high - margin ebooks have been a bright spot» for publishers without mentioning that those high margins are due, in part, to publishers» refusal to raise digital royalty rates for authors above 25 percent.

Even though the authors and the publishers will still make their same commission and even though the supremely discounted price on ebooks has translated into tens of thousands of book sales for authors and fiction's digital sales are up by 188 % for the first half of the year, authors are speaking out against having their ebooks discounted at the retailers» cost.

Not only did it possibly result in sanctions from anti-trust violations, but it kept the ebook prices overly inflated to the end that reading consumers opted for print editions that had similar price points but that carried with them enormous printing and shipping costs meaning a smaller profit for the publisher.

There is still a distribution cost associated with an ebook if a publisher is selling through a retailer like Amazon and it is often more than the cost of distribution of a physical book.

It has been estimated that the alleged collusion between the publishers and the resulting requirement that Amazon raise its ebook prices cost consumers around $ 250 million.

Maintaining updates, paying development fees, and issuing new features often has prohibitive costs for smaller publishers and ebook companies.

As there is no cost for printing the ebook, the Union feels the original agreement should still apply, meaning the publisher and the author split the net proceeds of digital editions fifty - fifty.

there is no incentive for Vietnamese publishers to digitise when there is no ebook retail infrastructure in place to justify the costs.

While I'd guess the publisher's markup for library use of 25 loans of an ebook far exceeds the single - copy price of the same book, I'd also be curious about the capital and administrative costs of housing and handling / shipping especially in a large multi-branch system, that don't exist for electronic loans.

Last week we determined that ebook pricing was not based on the cost of ebooks, but rather the most that publishers thought readers would pay for ebooks in this market.

But for publishers, it could add challenges as the new features these formats offer mean ebook production requirements and costs will scale up.

The coming month is when the 60 - day wait period on the settlement will expire, meaning hopefully as early as next week there could potentially be discussions between the retailers and the publishers about a reduced cost for ebooks.

As I said in Why Ebooks Must Fail and Advances Must Align to Risks, ebooks are currently sold with no advance cash payments and have the same discounts as print, leaving publishers with the onus of huge advance costs and only a trickle of income from individual Ebooks Must Fail and Advances Must Align to Risks, ebooks are currently sold with no advance cash payments and have the same discounts as print, leaving publishers with the onus of huge advance costs and only a trickle of income from individual ebooks are currently sold with no advance cash payments and have the same discounts as print, leaving publishers with the onus of huge advance costs and only a trickle of income from individual sales.

Through agreements with top publishers like Macmillan Higher Education, Oxford University Press, and more, Coursera is working on creating free digital textbooks for its course participants for the duration of the course; participants who want to own the digital title for referencing without a timeline will be able to purchase low - cost ebook editions.

When Apple allegedly approached the publishers about switching to an agency model in order to prevent Amazon from selling ebooks at what was often below cost in order to encourage the sale of Kindle readers, Amazon lost the option to sell ebooks at its previously advertised $ 9.99 price point.

Each one tends to cost substantially less than ebooks released by major publishers, with titles ranging from $ 2 to $ 5.

The lawsuit alleges that Apple and five of the publishers colluded to artificially raise the price of ebooks in 2010 when the iPad was introduced in order to force Amazon to stop selling ebooks at or below cost.

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.

Now, the three settling publishers, pending a wait period, will have only one week to terminate their agreement with Apple on how much their ebooks will cost.