One of the major reasons seen for the seismic shift from trad to indie is the return to agency pricing by the Big 5, which has brought sharp rises in
ebook prices from the trad publishers.
Buyers who are shunning higher
ebook prices from traditional publishers, an increase in adult -LSB-...]
However, for what its worth, I would argue that
ebook prices from big publishers are too high not from the perspective of production costs, but from the perspective of value.
One of the main aspects of discounted
ebook prices from over a year ago was due to the recent Justice Department settlement with the big six publishers.
Some of the ebook decline we're seeing may be attributable to higher
ebook prices from traditional publishers, as well as rapidly falling Nook sales.
@JanArrah Here's a good article on
ebook pricing from a publisher perspective.
While self - published authors only gross 70 % on
ebooks priced from 2.99 - 9.99, significant publishers have no such restrictions.
It's time for transparency on library
ebook pricing from both publishers and distributors.
Declaring that it's «the first time in seven years of writing this blog that I have walked back the thrust of a whole post» he quotes an unnamed «powerful literary agent» and «people in a position to know» that the high
ebooks prices from the big 5 publishers are there at Amazon's insistence in order to gain a higher margin on those sales.
They're also offering better royalties for books at higher price points: for
ebooks priced from $ 10 to $ 199.99, the royalty is 65 %, up from 40 % previously.
Fellow Indelible Ali Cross does gorgeous work too, with
ebook pricing from $ 75 (for 25k) to $ 125 (100k).
For
eBooks priced from $ 0.99 to $ 2.98, and eBooks priced at $ 10.00 or more, Amazon pays 35 % in royalties on all products sold.
A recent blog post on Joe Wikert's Publishing 2020 Blog addressed the issue of
ebook pricing from the value point of view, providing a new perspective on the relationship between a Kindle ebook's length, price, and value.
This means I get 70 % of
the ebook price from selling a book on Amazon and also that I get another 7 % or so (the percentage depends on how many products you sell in any given month) from the affiliate commission.
The other thing to note when comparing print and
ebook pricing from the UK standpoint at least is that ebooks at VATable whereas print books are not, meaning that 17.5 % (20 % from January 2011) of the RRP goes to the government, not the rights holders, so ebook revenue is lower than print from the outset.
Not exact matches
The conspiratorially minded might think it has to do with publishers» efforts at buffing up
ebook prices with the tech company — something that has brought all parties no end of grief
from antitrust watchdogs.
The Justice Department said the scheme caused some
ebook prices to rise to $ 12.99 or $ 14.99
from the $ 9.99
price previously charged by market leader Amazon.
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Most of these books
eBook commentaries will be
priced from $ 1.99 to $ 5.99 at places like Amazon, CBD, and Barnes & Noble.
Tips: The most recent research
from Smashwords determined that the best
price for
ebooks was between $ 2.99 and $ 3.99.
Also: a quick look at $ 69 Kindle, an
eBook price war launched by Amazon, Mike Shatzkin's praise of Amazon and thoughts on
eBook pricing, and a big boost for WorldReader
from major publishers.
Everyone
from John Scalzi to the L.A. Times took a shot at questioning, distinguishing, undermining, spinning, and just plain refuting Amazon's assertion that reducing
ebook prices would result in more sales and bigger profits for publishers and authors.
Apple's electronic book effort, iBooks, excludes everything
from Random House, the biggest publisher in the world, works only on Apple platforms and helped usher in a massive
ebook price increase last year.
My post was about the high
prices libraries pay for
ebooks from the «Big 6» publishers and the difficulties libraries have getting books
from most of those publishers.
At the peak of the nastiness over the summer, when Amazon was slowing shipments of some Hachette books and removing presale buttons on others, and after Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert eviscerated the retail giant in a popular segment on his show, Amazon made the very rare move of going public with what it wanted
from Hachette — namely, $ 9.99
pricing on most
ebooks.
The only shoppers that can buy your
eBook at the MatchBook
price are those that buy or have bought — at any time
from Amazon — your print book edition.
When they resisted providing
ebooks at all (windowing), then resisted fair
prices (charging $ 20 for a new release), and then threatening to take their
ebooks away
from Amazon unless they switched to agency
pricing... Amazon had little choice.
The trends in other industries will affect consumer expectations in publishing — and in small ways, it already has, with a movement geared to opening copyrighted works to the public, and the US Department of Justice suing all of the «big six» and Apple for
price fixing (iBookstore
prices differ widely
from Amazon's), which will likely give Amazon the upper hand in setting
ebook prices in the long run.
I heard about pressure
from physical bookstores to increase
ebook prices, or they would refuse to stock the titles in their stores.
Vook's latest
pricing compares favourably with automated self - publishing services like BookBaby (US149 - $ 249 per title plus $ 19 per title for distribution), and with outsourced
ebook conversion services, though the latter is a better option if you need to work
from hard copies or print - ready PDFs, neither of which is supported by Vook.
When the dust finally settled
from the Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and five of the then - Big Six publishers for illegally colluding to inflate the
price of
ebooks, essentially bilking consumers out of hundreds of millions of dollars in an effort to grab some more market share away
from Amazon, the terms of the judge's ruling included a caveat.
When the dust finally settled
from the Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple and five of the then - Big Six publishers for illegally colluding to inflate the
price of
ebooks, essentially bilking consumers out of hundreds of millions of dollars in an effort to grab some more market share away
from Amazon, the terms... [Read more...]
12 % said that the
price is right, but they would not buy
ebooks if the
price increased even further and 8 % said they no longer buy
ebooks and exclusively borrow them
from the library.
You can provide the loser with an
ebook in any format you wish,
from free to paid, but remembering that simply using his email address to «gift» him the
ebook from Amazon will cost you less than the
price of your print book and will increase your
ebook ranking.
eBooks are far
from reaching the same levels of popularity in South Africa as in the west and other parts of the world given the high
price tag that
ebook reading devices attract in the region.
While traditional publishers are locking said gates and gouging
prices of
ebooks, readers all over the world are embracing new work
from new writers at a fraction of the cost.
A number of authors have criticized the concept of free book giveaways or listing
ebooks at substantially lower
prices, based on the belief that this will translate into not only higher rates of piracy, but also lost sales
from readers who would have otherwise paid full
price.
News was announced yesterday
from the lawyers for the plaintiffs in one of Apple's side lawsuits over
ebook pricing that the grand total the company could have to pay out to consumers is $ 400 million.
One of the end results of these meetings is an agreement
from Random House that it would support
ebook lending of its catalog of titles, but that the
price that libraries must pay for those books would have to increase.
I will also honor the sale
price for anyone who wants to buy the
ebook directly
from me in the format of their choice!
Whatever the real number clearly Amazon remains the leading
ebook vendor and its continuing refusal to support library lending locks libraries out of the most popular format
from the vendor with the best title selection and the lowest
prices.
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.
From the
Pricing Tool page that just went live (in your Dashboard): FREE
ebooks - If your book is
priced at FREE, the library will have the option to check it out to an unlimited number of library patrons.
Prices start
from US$ 890 for our Amazon Kickstarter program and US$ 2890 for our print + expanded
ebook program.
The sale
price applies wherever Faerie Blood «s
ebook edition is sold, and I will honor it for any requests to buy the book directly
from me as well!
«The move by Barnes & Noble as well as Amazon to slash the
prices of their
eBook readers reflects a fundamental change in their business strategy intended to counter the rising competitive pressure
from Apple's iPad,» iSuppli said.
On top of this Amazon apparently demands a higher discount
from retail
prices on
eBooks than it does on printed books.
All of the books above available as
ebooks at very low
prices, and all but Out of the Shadows are also out in paperback too,
from all good retailers, online and on the high street.
I myself have seen this if a book's in transition
from, say, trade or hardcover to mass market and the
ebook price hasn't been adjusted yet; I had it happen when a Tanya Huff book I wanted made the jump
from hardcover to mass market.