Sentences with phrase «ebooks sold at a price»

However, as Mark Coker argues, compared to many indie authors who can get $ 1.80 - $ 2.10 out of each copy of their ebooks sold at the price of $ 2.99, those authors who publish through the traditional publishers are «at an extreme disadvantage» because they earn only $ 1.25 - $ 1.75 out of each copy of their ebooks sold at the price of $ 9.99.

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.

«When I see an ebook that sells for twice the price of the paperback version, either someone has lost their mind, is asleep at the wheel, or is deliberately steering the ship towards an iceberg,» she said.

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.

Amazon refuses to adopt the agency model, instead wanting to sell ebooks at a fixed maximum price.

The U.S. Department of Justice alleges that Apple, as it prepared to launch its own ebook store, persuaded publishers to price ebooks at $ 13 and $ 15, or about $ 3 more than the same books being sold through Amazon and other outlets.

But someone ought to remind Catherine's publisher, whether agent or legacy, that selling an ebook at almost the same price as a paperback (Kindle UK option) just looks like a rip - off.

At that price, it's widely known that Amazon is selling ebooks at a loss in a broad strategy to cement its Kindle ereaders and tablets as the dominant ereading platforAt that price, it's widely known that Amazon is selling ebooks at a loss in a broad strategy to cement its Kindle ereaders and tablets as the dominant ereading platforat a loss in a broad strategy to cement its Kindle ereaders and tablets as the dominant ereading platform.

eBay.com: eBay is more than a bidding store — you can sell unlimited numbers of eBooks at a set price on eBay.com or set up your own store.

Similarly, the hardcover version of the book, The Chronicles of Downton Abbey which is sold along with the TV series also enjoys about # 3 price benefit for the hardcover version which is sold at # 12.99 as an ebook.

This means an ebook under 50,000 words priced at $ 2.99 might be considered too expensive on Amazon, but may sell well on Kobo.

Good news for readers, but if the mainstreams are finally bringing eBook prices down to what Independent Authors have been selling them at for a while, where does that leave the latter?

Google is usually trying to sell ebooks cheaper than any other channel, discounting the books at a pseudorandom way, depending on price and currency.

The print edition is available through Amazon and other outlets; the publisher also sells an ebook edition in various formats at a reduced price.

The royalties (or whatever you want to call it, but again I'm using royalty because that's the generally accepted term) on ebooks sold in Japan, India, Brazil, and Mexico is 35 %, unless you're in KDP Select, at which point you get 70 % as long as it meets the price requirements.

If you want to price your ebooks higher, stop selling them on Amazon.com, and simply sell them using other available distribution channels at the price you wish to sell them.

Amazon is talking about ebook sales going to authors while print book sales would go to Hatchette and if Hatchette had agreed to this - showing they cared about their authors - Amazon would go back to large restocking / reorders on print books, discounting print books instead of selling them at the absurd high prices set by Hatchette which they've been complaining about, and re-enabling pre-order buttons.

You will lose at least one reader by ceasing to sell on Amazon.com, but I suppose you will gain the satisfaction of maintaining the ebook pricing structure you would like.

So if I'm selling 100 ebooks a month at $ 1.00 — grossing me $ 100 — and raising the price to $ 2.00 sells 20 ebooks — grossing me $ 40 — then I can say that the price is pretty elastic — that is, it's very responsive to price changes.

I think it would have worked the same if $ 0.99 never existed and $ 2 would have been the great thing for Indie writers to be discovered because established authors from publishing houses still sell their ebooks at over 5 times that price in most cases.

I think setting a minimum price is a better answer than anything at the high end because I don't think many people will sell very expensive ebooks.

There are so many schools of thought on this topic, and essentially with little overhead, pricing an eBook at 99 cents and selling exponentially more than at $ 2.99 does have its benefits.

Ebooks sold through Gardners will earn authors 60 percent of the list price after VAT — the same rate Smashwords authors earn on books sold at iBooks and other major retailers.

That said, I've become increasingly concerned about authors selling their ebooks at rock - bottom prices.

Thanks to Kindle Direct Publishing's pricing regime, an eBook selling in the US at $ 2.99, inexplicably is priced there at $ 38.85!

A: The Suggested Retail Price is the price at which you want to sell your ePrice is the price at which you want to sell your eprice at which you want to sell your eBook.

I do know authors who do extremely well selling at $ 4.99 with an occasional discount, and then there are authors like John Locke who was the first to sell 1 million eBooks and his are all priced at 99 cents.

In an interview with J - Source's Eric Mark Do, executives from paper said that they have typically only sold between 100 to 300 copies of each ebook they've published, priced at $ 4.99 apiece.

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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.

If you look at the recent decline in eBook sales, this is partly attributed to the abolishment of the Agency price model of selling books.

i'm personally very happy they're selling at a high price and even happier they hate ebooks so much.

It should come as very little surprise to you that after jacking up the prices of their ebooks at the start of 2015, the Big 5 sold fewer ebooks.

ebooks sell at a lower price point than other information products such as ecourses, which means you have to sell a lot to make money.

I would need to sell 110 ebooks priced at $ 2.99 to match the Audible royalty from just 40 sales.

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Will Google Books then sell my title at the eBook price?

«[International] publishers sell print books in India at [lower] prices and the same should be true for ebooks,» he said.

The future with an enforced «everybody selling at our selected price» future means Amazon and B&N sell less Kindles and Nooks because the book lovers are going to see the discounted HC at $ 18 and compare that to an eBook at $ 15 (plus cost of device) and deem it not worth buying a Kindle or Nook edition with its limitations.

This model allowed Amazon to sell ebooks from the major publishers at what was often a lesser price than Amazon had paid for them, a move the retailer employed to encourage customers to purchase the then - newly introduced Kindle e-readers.

The wealth of books from the various ebook distribution platforms selling at an under - three - dollar price point — and many of those selling for under one dollar — speaks to what readers are willing to pay for digital titles, especially from newer authors.

For the next two years, Amazon and other retailers will be able to sell the publishers» ebooks at their own determination of the price, or the original «wholesale model.»

And isn't it really the publishers who will be affected by a major retailer's inability to sell ebooks at comparable prices, effectively hurting the authors as well?

And at only a 15 % royalty rate for ebooks sold through Smashwords, the platform offers the authors a greater percentage of their sales price in royalty than platforms like Amazon or Barnes & Noble, who take 30 %.

When looking at the highest price point that actually sells any type of volume, $ 14.99 seems to be the ceiling in most cases for ebook bestsellers.

All along, Apple has maintained that it began the iBookstore simply to meet the needs of consumers and that each of the five publishers investigated by the DoJ had separately decided to switch to a different system of pricing, all of which resulted in Amazon no longer being able to sell bestselling ebooks at $ 9.99.

In The Netherlands there is no fixed book price for ebooks but ALL ebook stores sell the books for the same price, and that is at the publisher's suggested retail price and therefore defacto a fixed book price for ebooks.

You can find a lot of unsubstantiated opinion on the internet about prices too, but look at the places that are actually in the business of selling ebooks.

Yes, it's best, I think, not to count on freebies — selling your ebooks at a decent price seems like the point!

It is the first shot across the purchasing bow in big publishers» efforts to reset ebook pricing above the loss - leader $ 9.99 price point and retake control over that pricing by moving from the wholesale selling model to an agency selling model (first reported exclusively in Lunch Deluxe on January 19), at least for ebooks published simultaneously with new hardcover releases.