Links mentioned: Book Basset, Kindle Nation Daily's eBookTracker, Luzme,
eBook Price Drops, zooLert, and Edward Tufte.
Other sites that track eBook prices include Luzme,
eBook Price Drops, and zooLert.
If it is, wait for the price drop when that book comes out in paper and
the ebook price drops.
Not exact matches
I'll be
dropping the
prices for my
ebooks right away to see what happens.
Let me state this one more time: I don't think lowering
ebook prices costs anyone money unless and until they
drop under that magic point.
Winner Number One: Amazon, which said earlier this week it
drop prices once again on
ebooks, many of which it had been selling for $ 9.99 before the so - called «collusion.»
I attribute a huge chunk of
dropping share of
eBooks largely to the publishers» Pyrrhic victory in raising
eBooks prices compared to dead - tree, of course.
Also,
ebook sales may be flat or
dropping at the big publishing houses, mostly because they have raised
prices since the return of agency
pricing.
Since the most recent advent of digital reading and
ebook proliferation, the techno format has been blamed for a
drop in reading comprehension scores among grade school students, developmental concerns over children's screen time, and even the overturning of a time - honored
pricing and value structure within the... [Read more...]
The Web 2.0 «online
ebook» world has seen fiction
prices drop to # 0.69 — # 6.99.
By sticking to this loss - making practice, to create a perception amongst
eBook buyers that they should not have to pay more than $ 9.99 for an
eBook, and to thereby, over time, force publishers to
drop their retail
prices for
eBooks.
In honour of Halloween, CZP is
dropping its
eBook prices to half the number of the beast: $ 3.33 ACROSS THE BOARD!
(This is extremely annoying, I grant you, given that it's highly unlikely anything will be done to the
ebook as its
price drops.)
Amazon's royalty structures
drops back to 35 % if your
ebook is
priced more than $ 9.99
I have personally seen one
ebook I listed there have its
price dropped in under 4 hours.
It occurs to me that we may be entering an era when
ebooks will be like plane tickets —
prices drifting or shooting up or down for no apparent reason, for moments or months, everyone glued to twitter or whatever for announcements, and wondering if today is the best day to commit or perhaps tomorrow the
price will
drop, then feeling cheated when they choose badly.
They can
drop DRM, sell
ebooks directly to readers, add or improve their subscription services, offer print - on - demand — any strategy, really, except continuing to insist that readers must accept high
prices and restricted access.
Oftentimes, Amazon will give special placement to a book that's selling well and even
drop the
price of the
eBook to encourage further sales.
Print books have a baseline
price they can't
drop below because of paper costs, but there are no such restrictions on
ebooks.
You won't be looking for
price drops, if you can get quality
ebooks free!
Publishers will try to hold the line on their 25 % net
ebook royalty structures, which means big authors will see their royalties suffer as
prices drop and as the unit sales advantage of low
prices decreases, and as the disadvantage of high
prices increases.
Because you'll literally get hundreds of eyes on your book during your giveaway, avid reader eyes, and there's a good chance they're also on the
eBook newsletters you'd promote your
price drop to.
Drop the print volume, and you don't
drop the cost of publication anywhere near enough to provide the cost savings needed to
price eBooks at your preferred level.
After all, it offers the highest percentage royalty, and
eBooks are usually
priced lower than print books, which appeals to readers who might not want to
drop $ 15 on an author they've never heard of.
Dropping the
price of your
eBook can help raise your sales rank and visibility, while, at the same time, promoting other books you've written.
Ebook readers are
dropping in
price all the time.
Perhaps if the
price dropped another $ 50 it would be a good choice for less tech - savvy people just getting into
eBook reading.
When we finally got our French ERG edition finished and published as a Kindle book, we ran a two week «celebration sale» for the English
ebook and
dropped the
price from $ 3.99 to $.99.
And I'm not talking about a
price drop for an
eBook promo, I'm talking about playing with your
pricing.
Usually I have wait until the paperback version comes out in order for the
ebook price to
drop to a more reasonable level.
The publishers are also guilty to not have
dropped the
ebook prices.
Ebooks: font control, built in dictionary, near instant access to any book, TTS, cheaper ebooks if you focus on indie authors and free library downloads with my Overdrive app, IQreader to track price of over priced B5 published books for when they price drop to something I can afford,
Ebooks: font control, built in dictionary, near instant access to any book, TTS, cheaper
ebooks if you focus on indie authors and free library downloads with my Overdrive app, IQreader to track price of over priced B5 published books for when they price drop to something I can afford,
ebooks if you focus on indie authors and free library downloads with my Overdrive app, IQreader to track
price of over
priced B5 published books for when they
price drop to something I can afford, etc...
I read that the Hobbit
ebook will
drop from $ 24.99 to $ 17.99, only double the paperback and hardcover
prices.
The number of
ebooks I've picked up for under $ 6 may have spoiled me, but I'm happy to wait for a title to
drop in
price if necessary.
Another major positive about Barnes and Noble, they have
dropped the
prices of many of their
ebooks considerably since the initial release of the Nook to match Amazon's
prices.
And, aside from the Hachette numbers that were reported, we're hearing widespread but totally unofficial reports that big publisher
ebook sales are
dropping noticeably when their new higher agency
prices are activated.
Every day Amazon offers a «Daily Deal» on one
ebook —
dropping its
price for just 24 hours to as low as 25 cents!
And for an
ebook priced around $ 9.99, Kagi's slice
drops to around 15 %.
The fact that the Zon knows how to
price ebooks (a lesson the publishing industry has yet to learn, despite their digital sales
dropping last year) and that is to keep
prices low, really shows that is something the average digital reader expects... you lower that even further... a $ 2.99
ebook sells for $.99 and that is the version they will purchase, imho...
As more tablet choices become available for consumers and as dedicated e-readers
drop in
price to make room on the shelves for the tablets, more
ebooks than ever are likely to find their way onto reading consumers» newly acquired technology.
The plaintiffs, however, argue that there were secret meetings and deals made so that the defendants could edge out Amazon's 90 % share of the
ebook market; since the switch to agency
pricing, Amazon's control of the market has
dropped to sixty percent.
Most of the
ebooks will be free to our readers, courtesy of the author, but on occasion some of the authors will have the option to dramatically
drop the
price of their
ebooks for our readers in order to support charitable causes through the sales that day, ensuring that we can bring you a wide range of both indie and traditionally published writers, as well as everything from a climbing - the - list bestseller to the work of an as - of - yet undiscovered writing talent.
I believe
eBook readers will be around for a long time — if their
price drops to the
price of, say, a Gillette razor.
Nate Hoffelder presents Indie Authors Are Getting Clobbered by Big Name
eBook Discounts — But Not For The Reason You Think posted at The Digital Reader, saying, «If you've been following ebook news over the past 6 months then you've noticed that ebook prices have tended to
eBook Discounts — But Not For The Reason You Think posted at The Digital Reader, saying, «If you've been following
ebook news over the past 6 months then you've noticed that ebook prices have tended to
ebook news over the past 6 months then you've noticed that
ebook prices have tended to
ebook prices have tended to
drop.
The
price of the
eBook drops with each treeware release, so that it's always cheaper to buy the
eBook than the available paper copy.
The ebookseller has the right to
drop your listed retail
price, and its payment to you, to match the lowest
price for which any other site sells your
ebook.
What do you think will happen this December and January (largest
eBook selling time of year) when Amazon
drops eBook prices on their hottest titles to three nut - shots below suggested retail?
Several
ebook sales professionals, like Twitter marketing specialist Kelsye Nelson, say that the value of an
ebook — especially a self - published one — can not be
priced higher than the market worth of the item, and that market value of
ebooks has
dropped.
-- Despite main - stream - media not noticing it, Sony has recently
dropped all three of their
ebook readers to new low
prices.
PocketBook Lowers
Prices of eReaders — PocketBook followed suit and dropped the prices of all three of their ebook readers this week to keep competitive with everyone
Prices of eReaders — PocketBook followed suit and
dropped the
prices of all three of their ebook readers this week to keep competitive with everyone
prices of all three of their
ebook readers this week to keep competitive with everyone else.