It makes your book and brand look professional, and also makes the digital
ebook price look like a bargain.
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eBook pricing, and a big boost for WorldReader from major publishers.
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.
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.
The three free
ebooks, explaining all of the publishing / printing options available, gave me detailed information (and
pricing) for the options I was
looking for.
When I
look through the Kindle store and see
ebooks priced higher than the paperback and hardcover, it seems to me that they are trying to push readers back to that more traditional medium.
Take a
look at the pre-designs listed by genre and
price in the top navigation links or consider a custom design for your next release or back list titles on on Kindle, Nook, Pub - It, other
ebook format or in print.
It seems to me whenever I
look at the top name authors on Amazon I find their
ebooks «
price was set by the publisher.»
Some of the
ebooks can be
priced as high as # 80 — # 90, which has forced the students to
look for other ways of acquiring them.
Projects like Hugh Howey's Author Earnings are already maximizing on the available information to help authors make sound decisions concerning publishing route,
ebook pricing, and more, but traditional publishers are also slowly coming along in terms of
looking at all the possible pieces of information surrounding a book or author, and using that information to drive consumer engagement.
(
look up and verify) Scoff if you want, but I believe the big war machine is slowly churning to catch up with the times, as evidenced by the number of traditionally published books in Bookbub and the lower
ebook prices of traditional titles.
I wrote not that long ago about the new version of the WH Smith
eBook store, and when Kindle launched I compared the
prices of a selection of books — essentially
looking at those I've bought, and comparing what the
price would be to buy the whole collection again for Kindle, or just to buy them all now, if I were starting from scratch.
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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.
While Vellum's
price tag is supposed to let authors make one version of their
ebooks that
look streamlined and professional then upload it to all retail platforms, the
price of the service is fairly close to what some formatters would charge to produce the different file versions of the books, and all the author has to do there is email the original document of the book without going through the laborious process of formatting it within the app.
If you
look at the VAT
prices on printed books it currently sits at 4 % while
ebooks are much more expensive at 17 %.
What I appreciate about Joe Konrath's posts on
ebook pricing is that he is experimenting with backlist
pricing,
looking at the results with an objective eye, and being transparent about the decisions he makes based on results.
Macmillan is
looking for dynamic
pricing on
ebooks, based on the perceive value of a title as related to its print release status.
The retailing behemoth is
looking to win over writers whose works are published by Hachette in an attempt to break stalemated negotiations over
ebook pricing.
For that
price, you're
looking at an
ebook with 10,000 - 20,000 words with a writer who charges somewhere near.01 cent per word.
What is an
eBook, what are the formats / types, what's not considered an
eBook, what an
eBook will
look like compared to a printed book, digital protection for
eBooks, how to
price an
eBook, and more!
Ideally I'd
look at playing with how you
price your book once a month — more if you're running an
eBook promo that you're advertising, which I'll cover in a minute.
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.
Traditional
ebook sales might be, but perhaps they want to
look at their
pricing and marketing.
The only print sales drive I've seen is that if the print book costs too much, the reader will
look for a decently
priced ebook before giving up.
I find the
price for an
ebook is the same wherever I
look.
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.
I see that the
ebook Heyer mysteries have all increased in
price since I last
looked.
As for there not being a wide selection of children's lit for
ebooks he needs to quit
looking at over
priced traditional publishers and toward the enormous number of self - publishing authors who are bypassing the gatekeepers and publishing youth orientated literate by the bit loads every month now.
I'm interested to hear your thoughts on Follett in the upcoming post — I haven't
looked at their
ebook offerings since January 1, but prior to that, I thought the interface was poor with high
pricing and little in selection for YA lit (which is primarily what we would purchase).
At the Digital Book World conference in New York City, two industry leaders sat down and discussed the semantics of
ebook pricing, and how it is currently affecting the industry and
looking into the inner workings.
Targeted Age Group: Adult & YA Category: Dogs Print book
price range: $ 12.99
eBook price range: $ 2.99 About Someone to
Look Up To: «A must for dog - lovers.»
An interesting discussion on how publishers
look at the
pricing of
eBooks http://tinyurl.com/SFXeBook.
And while a $ 9.99
ebook price may be good for consumers
looking to buy
ebooks, it's the idea of this becoming a race to make the cheapest
ebook that worries me.
Last week saw the declaration by Amazon that the dissolution of agency
pricing in the US was a «big win for customer» and that they
look forward to lowering
prices on more
ebooks in the future.
The $ 99
price tag and eight bright color choices the jetBook Mini comes in may catch the eye of someone
looking for a budget
ebook reader, but if you aren't careful and don't do your research before buying you're probably going to end up with a $ 99 paperweight.
Just
look at the
prices on the first ten pages of
ebooks that appear - if you want to get your book in there,
price it in the same range!
Last week, on March 24, 2012, we
looked at a brief history of
eBooks, Publishers and the Agency vs. Wholesale
pricing model.
Augen «The Book»
eBook Reader — This new device showed up for pre-order on JR this week and
looks to have a lot going for it feature-wise, especially considering the low
price of $ 129.
Locke said he studied the
ebook market,
looked at
pricing of
ebooks, and decided to become the bestselling author of 99 Cent books bar none.
However, any author who turns his back on readers, who makes readers wait a year to get decently
priced books, who makes readers pay more for
ebooks than the paperback
price, who trumpets how much more important Publishers are — Well, that author can
look forward to some real character - building experiences once the revolution has run its course.
In my wanderings I have found resources for images, media / marketing, and
Ebook covers that
look amazing at a reasonable
price.
Given that big publishers keep the
prices of
eBooks artificially high (they'd sell millions of $ 2
eBooks, but I suspect their $ 20 printed complements wouldn't
look very appealing to consumers), small publishers have exploited the low production and distribution costs to flood the market with $ 1 — $ 3
eBooks.
It
looks as though the big tradpubs were * sure * that if they hiked
ebook prices via agency they'd make scads more money from print books because
ebooks would not be putting pressure on industry
pricing.
Tor's current
ebook prices start out in the 13 - 15 $ range when the Hardback is out but
looks like they drop it to same
price as the MMPB when it comes out.
But rather than kicking the Sony, if you
look at the Nook, while it does appear to have one advantage over the Kindle, the support for an external USB drive, it doesn't have good
pricing on its books (Amazon is consistently less expensive) and the nook doesn't appear to offer as good a collection based on searches at B&N
ebook and Amazon Kindle.
In the last two posts, we've
looked at the goals you may have for your
ebook, the expectations your readers may have, and how these affect
pricing.
Apart from the excellent points raised by the author in his post, you can possibly
look for other areas of information e.g. the
eBook format, different
pricing strategy, book promotion services to include in your data analysis.