Already, 30,000 indie ebooks and nearly 6,000 authors are enrolled to participate with deep discounted
ebooks priced at 25 % - off, 50 % - off, 75 % - off and FREE.
However, as soon as you get into 70 % commission territory, the losses begin, with downturns of 33 %, 50 % and 60 % on
ebooks priced at $ 2.99, $ 3.99 and $ 4.99 respectively, as shown in the chart above.
According to Amazon,
ebooks priced at $ 9.99 sell more copies and generate more overall revenue than the same title priced at $ 14.99.
Amazon views
ebooks priced at $ 9.99 as a win for all parties involved.
For eBooks priced from $ 0.99 to $ 2.98, and
eBooks priced at $ 10.00 or more, Amazon pays 35 % in royalties on all products sold.
Would we want to have only
ebooks priced at more than $ 10?
It can be used to get
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Check out their list of fiction
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I would need to sell 110
ebooks priced at $ 2.99 to match the Audible royalty from just 40 sales.
A couple of years ago, Amanda Hocking came on the self - publishing scene with several YA
ebooks priced at 99 cents (for book 1s) and $ 2.99 (for subsequent books) and had legendary sales that led to a legendary two - million - dollar traditional publishing deal.
This way of
ebook pricing at libraries gives you a lot of flexibility.
People have been burned by low - quality cheap ebooks and are now wary of buying
any ebook priced at $ 0.99.
This means that
an ebook priced at 9.99 receives a royalty of $ 6.993 and one priced at 19.99 receives a royalty of $ 6.997.
To exaggerate a bit to make the point clearer: if Hachette only published 100 ebooks and had 99 ebooks priced $ 9.99 or less and 1
ebook priced at $ 14.99, then Mr Pietsch could accurately claim that 99 % of the ebooks Hachette publishes are available for $ 9.99 or less.
Compare this to a net royalty of just $ 1.39 for
an ebook priced at $ 1.99.
If Hagens Berman's case finds that Apple and the publishers colluded to set
ebook prices at such a high level for their greedy little Mr. Burns moment, damages could be awarded to the plaintiffs, plus an injunction could see ebook prices lowered.
Logically you'd think that eBooks would just be a couple of dollars cheaper, less the cost of shipping, storage and delivery, not bottom barrel
eBook pricing at $ 0.99.
Two, as I noted back in 2010, I have a sneaking suspicion that if Amazon had prevailed and capped eBook sales at $ 9.99, publishers would have responded by standardizing * all *
eBook prices at $ 9.99, i.e., the eBook price would not have dropped in concert with the paperback price.
The result was a normalisation of
ebook prices at a higher level than before.
However, the sales might actually decrease for
an ebook priced at $ 12.99 when it is priced at $ 9.99 and the lower price point could lead to further downward pressure on prices (i.e., lead to lower long - term sales volume and lower profits in the long run).
I think Amazon taking a moment to opine that authors should get 35 % of revenues for their eBooks is a nice bit of trying to rally authors to their point of view by drawing their attention away from Amazon's attempt to standardize
all eBook pricing at a price point that benefits Amazon's business goals first and authors secondarily, if at all.
A self - published
ebook priced at $ 3.99 and selling at that level would be earning its author roughly $ 1,400 a year.
A traditionally - published
ebook priced at $ 9.99 and selling at that level would be earning roughly $ 875 a year.
January's $ 1.38 borrow rate represents a huge 294 % improvement on the $ 0.35 that would be paid on a sale of
an ebook priced at $ 0.99, while a book priced at $ 1.99 would have got 97 % more revenue for a borrow than for a sale.
The company found that on average
an ebook priced at $ 9.99 sold 1.74 times as many copies as
an ebook priced at $ 14.99.
Not exact matches
Normally, retailers get to decide how much they sell books for, but the publishers were down with the plan because they were worried about Amazon's growing power and the company's penchant for selling
ebooks at low
prices.
The conspiratorially minded might think it has to do with publishers» efforts
at buffing up
ebook prices with the tech company — something that has brought all parties no end of grief from antitrust watchdogs.
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«When I see an
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price of the paperback version, either someone has lost their mind, is asleep
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For the most part, sites that display free
ebooks do so to assist authors who are offering free books through Amazon, we allow you to post ANY bookseller your book is free or discount
priced at.
Before the agency model, Amazon was buying new
ebook releases
at the wholesale
price of the hardcovers, then turning around and selling them for retail
at dollars less.
Also: a quick look
at $ 69 Kindle, an
eBook price war launched by Amazon, Mike Shatzkin's praise of Amazon and thoughts on
eBook pricing, and a big boost for WorldReader from major publishers.
Amazon refuses to adopt the agency model, instead wanting to sell
ebooks at a fixed maximum
price.
At Amazon and other online retailers
prices for an
eBook can be as low as 99 cents.
My
ebooks are
priced at 4.95 with Ridan because they did run a lot of numbers looking
at pricing with Michael J. Sullivan's books and determined that sales in that niche were maximized
at the 4.95
price point.
Everyone from John Scalzi to the L.A. Times took a shot
at questioning, distinguishing, undermining, spinning, and just plain refuting Amazon's assertion that reducing
ebook prices would result in more sales and bigger profits for publishers and authors.
Pull all of your book data into the ISBN management section: title, subtitle,
price, ISBN,
eBook ISBN,
eBook price, trim size, page count, word count, category, age group — into book ISBN fields
at www.myidentifiers.com (this will start the process of getting your book's data out to the world and make it easier for the sales to be tracked.)
If we offer your
eBook for sale in a different currency than a currency in which you set your List
Price («Sale Currency»), we may convert the List
Price to the Sale Currency
at an exchange rate we determine.
I've been hearing readers complain about rising
ebook prices and spotted more than a few
at $ 12.99, $ 17.99, even $ 29.99, but I hadn't yet seen the numbers on how this affects sales.