Sentences with phrase «ebook prices close»

Failing that, keep ebook prices close to paper book prices and increase their profits.

Not exact matches

While those are the major players in the online bookselling and ebook selling space, how many independent bookstores or online startups will be able to even come close to those prices?

Less than a month before the trial was scheduled to begin, Apple has reached an out - of - court agreement to close an antitrust lawsuit alleging the company conspired with publishers to raise ebook prices.

(Note: Polls are now closed and the results are listed in this post about author income and ebook prices.)

Their decision to withhold library ebook sales, at least until per - lend prices rise to close to sale prices, is entirely rational.

Potential authors may be interested to hear that XinXii offers up to 70 % cut of the sale prices for ebooks, which is quite better than the average, which is often closer to around 40 % -50 %.

Abroad, several other international entities also began their own investigations into claims that Apple and the publishers made an illegal closed - door agreement to arrange the pricing on ebooks specifically in order to edge out Amazon.

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.

When B&N, along with books a million and maybe others close down, enjoy your $ 35 or higher ebooks from Amazon, because when their msin competition goes, they will jack up their prices unyil they hit the sky....

This new price change will affect close to 3,500 ebooks that are available for libraries to purchase.

Last week sources at the USA Justice Department said on record that they were close to a settlement that would allow Amazon and other eBook companies to set their own prices for digital books.

Close in nature to concepts like Amazon Prime, in which members have a pre-determined number of ebook checkouts for one annual membership price, Freading allows libraries to allot patrons virtual tokens that are exchanged for borrowable titles, tokens that are bought with actual money by the library, as opposed to a flat subscription price for using the catalog.

Apple and five of the Big Six Publishers — HarperCollins Publishers, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishers, Penguin Group and Simon & Schuster — are accused of colluding behind closed doors to set an agency pricing model on ebooks.

But you can't see eBook prices in the catalog; maybe Amazon Publishing doesn't need to commit to that important price information until closer to pub dates.

New court reports this week suggest Apple (s aapl) is sinking ever deeper into legal quicksand, as the company fights a court judgment over ebook price - fixing that could ultimately cost it close to $ 1 billion dollars.

Frankly, the small price in time spent is nothing compared to the satisfaction of seeing how my eBook is coming along and being able to come ever closer to complete control over how it looks.

If publishers sustain prices for ebooks closer to hardcover and other printed books, at say $ 14.99, to benefit retailers of books, it harms the consumers, who will be paying a price premium that they otherwise wouldn't under the Amazon $ 9.99 model.

In short, would appreciate very much if you would compare the ebook features of the new HD fire with the paperwhite esp since the price points are so close.

Slashing $ 60 from the price to $ 299, the Kindle is now coming closer to the price of other ebook readers.

On closer inspection, however, the ebooks that you do have to pay for are consistently more expensive that their counterparts on the Amazon store — we performed a random test of three titles, Julian Barnes Sense of and Ending was # 1 dearer on the Kobo Store, The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern was # 2 more expensive and the Twilight saga was the same price on both.

I think the publishers have gone insane, though - pricing new best sellers at $ 14 in hardcover puts a cap on the perceived ebook price of perhaps $ 12, and that is perilously close to the likely trade price.

The variable cost for ebooks is quite close to nil, and so in a free market, one should expect that that variable cost difference would result in a discounted price for the ebook (which is what justifies the purchase of an ebook reader and connectivity charges).

I think BoB is very consumer oriented and I would hate to see a promising young e-tailer close its doors because of aggressive loss leader pricing designed to gain a monopoly on the ebook reading public.

However, their approach is different: for a comparable price build an eReader with a color LCD screen that should offer additional functionality beside just of an eBook reader, very similar with what Apple has done with their iPad but in a form factor more compatible with reading, and for a price also closer to that of a popular eBook reader.

In other words, publishers were getting on average very close to 100 % of the actual sale price for every ebook sold.

If Amazon didn't think people will buy enough ebooks at a given price to turn a profit then they'd close that division as quickly as B&N closes a brick an mortar store that repeatedly runs a loss.

I still can't quite accept the idea that before I can read I have to shell out over $ 100 for a device, and the price of ebooks has crept up very close to the cost of a regular paper book so what's the advantage (that's aimed mostly at home readers not travelers).

This eBook will introduce a series of tools and techniques that will strengthen your keen sense of the market, your expertise in determining value, and your ability to bring a deal to close in the shortest time possible and at the highest price.