Sentences with phrase «ebook prices up»

Hachettte's goal is to drive ebook prices up to protect print books, thus doesn't benefit readers or authors.

So as publishers wrestle back consumer pricing via the new agency model, driving ebook prices up, it's clear they're inadvertently (and sometimes deliberately) nudging consumers back to print.

First, there is a Long Weekend Sale with ebooks priced up to 75 % off!

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.

You will receive an eBook in digital format that is loaded with a step - by - step guide to show you how to create a capsule wardrobe, a guide of suggested clothes and shoes to include in your capsule, a checklist, a visual outfits guide, a one - page travel packing guide and guide for 8 ways to save up to save at least 50 % off retail prices.

In fact, Real Food, Really Fast has been selected as a featured ebook until May 23rd on Amazon.com which means you can snap up a digital copy for the fire sale price of just $ 1.99.

You will receive an eBook in digital format that is loaded with a step - by - step guide to show you how to create a capsule wardrobe, a guide of suggested clothes and shoes to include in your capsule, a checklist, a visual outfits guide, a one - page travel packing guide and guide for 8 ways to save up to save at least 50 % off retail prices.

I knew if I made a deal, that the price of my ebooks would shoot up.

The problem with this, however, is that this means that the major publishing houses now have bumped the prices back up for a LOT of new ebook releases.

eBay.com: eBay is more than a bidding store — you can sell unlimited numbers of eBooks at a set price on eBay.com or set up your own store.

Entitle Christian, as the service is called, allows its members to download up to four books per month depending on the pricing option they choose; unlike typical subscription models, this one serves as more of a book club of sorts, as the ebooks do not disappear after a predetermined amount of time.

Just as ebook distributors competed for readers by offering the best in content, pricing, devices, and compatibility, digital magazine providers are also upping the ante when it comes to vying for consumer loyalty.

eBook sales are down across the board, due to fact that publishers have more control over the pricing and have driven the prices up.

I don't have the numbers but my impression is that the percentage of Big Five publisher ebooks listed on the Kindle ebook Top 100 has gone down as their prices went up.

Once big corporate publishers got control over their authors ebook prices they jacked up the price.

But as of this writing, Amazon is offering the book for pre-order — something that many mom - and - pop independent bookstores aren't even set up to do — for less than $ 13 for the hardcover; the Kindle edition is priced just over $ 11, while Barnes and Noble and Kobo are offering the ebook edition for pre-order for more than $ 16.

Since big publishers won their lawsuit and jacked eBook prices way up, I don't buy big pub books anymore.

Now that audiobooks have gone digital (just like ebooks), the accessibility is going up and the price is going down — which is great news for reader - listeners!

(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 sell my ebooks for $ 4.95, so the obvious price point for an eARC would have been something similar, but I didn't think it'd be worth my time to set everything up, email people (I mistakenly, didn't think of automation this first time around — more on that farther down), and deal with the inevitable «customer service» emails I'd get for $ 5.

But this is what happens when the price of ebooks goes up.)

My search for an ebook version of Nightmares and Geezenstacks, released as a Bantam Book in 1961 with a cover price of $.40, came up short, although many of Brown's novel and short - story collections are available in Kindle form.

The Daily Entrepreneur: 33 Success Habits for Small Business Owners, Freelancers and Aspiring 9 - to - 5 Escape Artists ebook will be $ 0.99 (or the equivalent price in your country) for the next few days until midnight Saturday, November 1st, then it will go up to $ 2.99.

Politics has played an important role: in Europe, several governments including France, Russia and Germany are investing tens of millions to shore up their publishing and bookselling infrastructure, while in the United States a contentious lawsuit saw the Department of Justice convicting Apple and five of America's largest publishers of colluding to fix ebook prices.

Here's a good round - up of recent numbers: All About The Money: Authors, Readers, and Ebook Prices Jami Gold, Paranormal Author Pauline M Ross: writer of epic fantasy The Plains of Kallanash and a reviewer on speculative -LSB-...]

On the other hand, a lower royalty rate on a hardcover with a higher cover price can end up matching the ebook royalties, where it's a higher percentage of a lower cover price.

We always make sure our ebook prices are less than our print prices But because the sales are now spread between print and digital the costs can't be that dramatically different because otherwise we would end up with much less revenue... unless you want to argue if the book were 4.99 we'd possibly sell a lot more ebooks.

The aim here is the same as the collusion between the Big 6 and Apple, which was to jack up the prices of ebooks on customers.

The biggest complaint I've seen against Amazon's proposal is that with Amazon in control of pricing, they could give Hachette ebooks away and end up paying nothing.

Step 4: Create a short (500 words) and long description (up to 2500 words) of your book, a bio of you (100 - 500 words), and a price for the paperback and ebook versions of your book.

Traditional publishers helped indie publishers a lot in this very early period by deciding that they didn't like electronic books and priced them up near hardcover levels, as if an ebook was a specialty item.

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.

Some days it almost feels like I have too much power... And if I need to pick up a book immediately at its full eBook price, usually around $ 9.99, the purchasing process is dangerously simple.

Macmillan is discounting ebooks up to 10 % of the list price for selected titles.

I agree, the jacked up ebook prices are outrageous to me, and I won't buy any version no matter what.

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 %.

In what was supposed to be a move to give the independent booksellers a leg up over major chain retailers, online retailers, AND ebook distributors, the publishers would set one price per title and no seller would be allowed to discount that title more than five percent.

I don't think it's fair to lump all people reading pirated eBooks into the same category, because many of them are victims of higher institutions of learning that force their students to buy course material written by the teachers and published in very small print runs, jacking the price of a hardcover textbook up to over $ 100 in many cases, with a new edition coming out every year, making any «used» book market obsolete.

What they are concerned about is the recent Agency Model the big publishers are coming up with to regulate global eBook prices.

At $ 10 — $ 15 per month I think plenty of avid ebook readers would be willing to sign up, because they're probably already buying at least one ebook at retail prices each month.

He writes that he thinks publishers are jacking up their ebook prices:

It should come as very little surprise to you that after jacking up the prices of their ebooks at the start of 2015, the Big 5 sold fewer ebooks.

Amazon basically has sewn this problem up and one can download almost anything from their site and the prices are very good when compared to purchasing in Europe or the eBook store.

They have a list of ebooks on sale with prices up to 90 % off.

Until that Netflix For eBooks service pops up, you're going to have to shop around a bit before your purchase if you want to land on the lowest price.

If publishers / authors are viewing the ebook (and audio books for that matter) this way, then it is no wonder that this issue for pricing has come up.

That way good old human nature sets in and browsers feel like they're getting a good deal when they pick up your ebook for $ 2.99 when the paperback is priced at $ 14.99.

Amazon also has another one - day only sale on select Kindle ebooks that takes up to 75 % off the regular price.

Normally I hate talking about pricing of ebooks by indie publishers because there are no right answers and I always end up making people mad.

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....