Ebook buyers buy more than they read.
Not exact matches
By high pricing on
ebooks, they are losing some impulse and cost conscience
buyers, but by lower pricing they would likely be driving people who would normally
buy the more expensive hardcover over to the
ebook market, and not just for the book in question but for future purchases as well.
Publisher HarperCollins and bookseller Foyles have joined hands to come up with a unique scheme, a book bundle offer where
buyers will get both the print as well as the
ebook version of the same as a single
buy.
The more you charge for an
ebook, the more
buyers will
buy our books at less than half your rate.
DRM not only limits what a
buyer can do with the book they just
bought, it also locks them into a specific
eBook vendor.
You can use your own
ebook to build up a list of
buyers of the
ebook, along with special report subscribers who haven't
bought yet.
Mass, club, grocery, and drug retailers, who account for a lot of physical books sold, can now offer
buyers the ability to
buy ebooks as well.
In 2013, Nielsen's Books & Consumers survey shows that among U.S.
buyers of adult fiction and nonfiction, 25 % of book
buyers bought an
eBook and 31 % of new books purchased in adult fiction and nonfiction were
eBooks.
No wonder
ebook buyers are nuying less as we realize how easy it is to loose our books when we can
buy hard copy for the same price.
Irish Kindle
buyers can
buy ebooks one of two ways.
That's fine if you've got some mega blockbuster book everyone has been waiting on, but we know from
buying history that
eBook buyers are pretty price sensitive so discounting a book by just a few dollars probably won't work.
The move caps off a series of
ebook moves by Dymocks including the recent announcement that they'll begin selling
ebooks from their website, a partnership with Aussie
ebook distributor
eBook.com to support a new format for reading
ebooks online, and the installation of in - store kiosks in their flagship George Street, Sydney store to let
buyers browse and
buy ebooks.
Also make it easy for potential
buyers to
buy book possibly through a link in the
ebook.
Romance
buyers are
buying ebooks to a greater extent when compared with other major fiction subgenres and
ebook sales of romance books have proportionally doubled in one year, from 22 % in Q1 2011 to 44 % in Q1 2012.
When it comes to format preferences among book
buyers in Canada, consumer surveys conducted with 966 book -
buying Canadians during the first six months of 2017 show a 3 % increase in the number of
ebooks purchased versus the same period in 2016.
My favorite number at the first TOC buchreport in Berlin on April 23rd was 20, as in 20 % of the 2.4 million
ebook buyers in Germany in 2012 had not
bought any books in the previous twelve months, according to GfK, as quoted by Carel Weltbild, CEO of Weltbild, the second largest book chain and online platform for books in the country.
The problem is that
ebook buyers are used to paying US$ 5 or less for a good book, so why would they
buy my historical fiction
ebook for $ 11.38, or my romantic thriller for $ 7.62?
I fully expected more people to borrow these than to
buy them (I honestly wanted
buyers to wait until the complete serial was available in one
ebook, as that would be a better deal for them and for me, too, since I could get the 70 % split on that).
When I was writing for TeleRead, Scott Pendergrast told me «My brother, Steve, shopped the site around to a number of
buyers with the understanding that the current philosophy toward
ebooks would survive — and that presumably means that you'll still be able to
buy non-DRMed books from Fictionwise when publishers allow.»
There are many people who do no read
ebooks (and many book
buyers LOATH to
buy books by self publish authors for distribution) even with her success the B&M s were not
buying her books wholesale, a fact clearly not lost on her.
This is the information that helps increase discoverability of
eBooks in search and also helps
buyers make decisions in a virtual space about the titles they want to
buy.
Average
ebook buyers, 26.9 %, purchased 3 - 4
ebooks bought per year.
32.7 % were frequent
buyers who
bought 5 or more
ebooks in 2014.
Please tell us what you like and what you hate about
buying eBooks so we can try to make the experience as positive as possible for
buyers.
Of those who did
buy an
ebook, the majority of
ebook buyers (40.4 %)
bought 1 - 2
ebooks per year.
Social proof, much like online reviews, give potential
buyers the added confidence needed to
buy your
eBook.
I know of a program called
EBook Gold which protects my pdf file from being copied, cut and pasted etc and provides links to paypal for purchasing etc and provides a means of refund which at the same time wipes the
bought copy off the
buyer's hard drive so he can not hang on to his
bought copy after obtaining a refund.
Three years ago, I
bought an IPad, and became a faithful
ebook buyer.
Ebook buyers will increasingly buy ebooks using mobile devices rather than PCs so your site should work on smaller screens: browsing, searching and buying on an iPhone or ebook reader can be frustrating on websites designed for a big PC sc
Ebook buyers will increasingly
buy ebooks using mobile devices rather than PCs so your site should work on smaller screens: browsing, searching and
buying on an iPhone or
ebook reader can be frustrating on websites designed for a big PC sc
ebook reader can be frustrating on websites designed for a big PC screen.
(I'm one of a growing number of
ebook buyers who will not
buy a book if there's DRM applied, because it means I don't actually own it.
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I don't think that book
buyers care whether they can
buy both print and e from the same store, so you're not doing them a disservice by not offering
ebooks.
Selling on other devices to customers who would otherwise have
bought in the Kindle store ends up hurting your profile across all
eBook readers when you are starting out.When you sell PDF
eBooks directly, they should be formatted just like printed books, and in my case, I allow customers to print the PDF, which works especially well for overseas
buyers who really want a hard copy but didn't want to pay (and wait) to have a book shipped from overseas.
When I read this as «the number of book
buyers who also
bought a book rose from 9 % to 17 %» it looks like an 89 % increase in book
buyers who also
bought ebooks.
26 % of book
buyers HAVE
bought ebooks and 14 % of 76 % (10.5 %) also HAVE ereaders but don't use them.
Meanwhile, Best
Buy will be preloading the Barnes & Noble desktop app on select notebooks, desktops, netbooks and smartphones, giving
buyers a) an out of the box way to purchase
ebooks, or b) another piece of bloatware to uninstall.
A retailer simply may not see much incentive to drop
ebook prices by a dollar or two if a) people are already
buying those
ebooks through them at the higher price; b) other retailers are likely to match the discount and c) the slightly lower price won't convert many new
buyers.
But while
buyers will be able to shop online for physical goods in the EU without being blocked or automatically re-routed, there's just one small problem: the new rules don't cover ANY copyrighted content such as
ebooks, downloadable music, online games, and films, online tv, streamed sports events — you know, the sort of thing you might really want to
buy crossborder.
Getting your target market to find you with a managed offline effort will, no doubt, increase your online traffic and adding some of these offline pieces like your
buyer and seller packets as an
ebook to your online platform will give you and your business the legitimacy and authority you need to become the resource they're looking for when it comes time to
buy, sell or invest in real estate!