Last post we looked at
ebook pricing through the lens of the author's goals for his or her book.
And self - published authors set their own
ebook prices through Amazon's KDP, but those books weren't affected, either.
Not exact matches
For the most part, sites that display free
ebooks do so to assist authors who are offering free books
through Amazon, we allow you to post ANY bookseller your book is free or discount
priced at.
The U.S. Department of Justice alleges that Apple, as it prepared to launch its own
ebook store, persuaded publishers to
price ebooks at $ 13 and $ 15, or about $ 3 more than the same books being sold
through Amazon and other outlets.
You will adjust the List
Price as required to ensure that, at all times that the eBook is available for sale through NOOK Press, the List Price does not exceed the maximum list price or go below the minimum list price permitted in our Pricing and Payment T
Price as required to ensure that, at all times that the
eBook is available for sale
through NOOK Press, the List
Price does not exceed the maximum list price or go below the minimum list price permitted in our Pricing and Payment T
Price does not exceed the maximum list
price or go below the minimum list price permitted in our Pricing and Payment T
price or go below the minimum list
price permitted in our Pricing and Payment T
price permitted in our
Pricing and Payment Terms.
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.
Sony also is adjusting
prices to some of the e-books it sells
through its online
eBook Store.
When I was on Amazon last night, I noticed the lined -
through original
price on
ebooks for the first time.
Though one never knows how long such tricks might last, you can currently make your
ebook free at Barnes & Noble (
through Smashwords distribution), Kobo, and iTunes, and Amazon may
price - match.
Authors, writers, publishers of
eBooks, audiobooks and short texts can... A) sell their
eBook through their author page on XinXii - without author contract - in real - time, without technical skills - with an own authorpage and online shop - enter all information such as description, tags, cover,
price... - upload an
eBook in one or multiple formats: PDF, ePub, mobi, doc, xls... - high royalties per download - consolidated real - time sales reports - keeping full editorial and copyright control or B) sell their
eBook through their author page on XinXii and additionally on major
eBook retailers - we convert
eBooks to the ePub and mobi format for free - we distribute to the leading
eBook - shops all over the world for free - we provide consolidated sales reports Readers have... - the opportunity to discover new titles in all categories and genres - an easy access to a huge variety of content - can instantly download after purchase - have the opportunity to rate and comment on
eBooks
These
prices will be in effect
through the end of March, and apply to the major
ebook vendors where I sell as well as to my Square marketplace.
The print edition is available
through Amazon and other outlets; the publisher also sells an
ebook edition in various formats at a reduced
price.
If you have decide to distribute your
eBook through us, you will fill in the provided fields (category, title, summary, pages, keywords, your profile etc.), enter the sales
price and upload your
eBook (in one or multiple formats)- and select the
eBook shops.
The minimum
price that you can set on CompletelyNovel is # 1.99, and we take a 20 % commission of all
eBook sales
through the website.
Matthew Cashmore, the digital director of Blackwell's, told Forbes that since the
price reduction, the bookseller is struggling to keep the Nook Simple Touch in stock, and that
ebook sales have gone «
through the roof.»
Books Butterfly provides many options over a wide range of
price points for advertising your
ebook in its enewsletter, on several websites, and
through its social media pages.
Author: Margaret Cook Publisher: All She Writ.net
Price: $ 7.97 Page Count / Binding: Kindle
eBook Available
through: Amazon
Ebooks sold
through Gardners will earn authors 60 percent of the list
price after VAT — the same rate Smashwords authors earn on books sold at iBooks and other major retailers.
Once you publish your
eBook, you'll continue to earn 90 % of the Suggested Retail
price through January 31, 2012.
Author: Margaret Cook Publisher: All She Writ.net ISBN: 10: 061557775X 13: 978 - 0615577753
Price: $ 7.97 Page Count / Binding: 40 page paperback — also Kindle
eBook Available
through: Amazon
Author: Timothy Yohe Publisher: Amazon CreateSpace ISBN: 978 -1-5173269-8-2
Price: $ 8.99 Page Count / Binding: 106 page Paperback; also in Kindle
Ebook Available
through: Amazon
As I have been saying here over and over and over, most electronic books sold
through most major
ebook retail outlets are sold by traditional publishers in the
price range of $ 7.99 to $ 15.99.
Dubbed Read and
eBook Week, a campaign that runs from March 2nd
through 8th, the event offers authors the opportunity to reach out to readers with promotional
pricing on their books for one week only.
Before Amazon emerged, there were six major publishing houses, each with several imprints; Amazon indirectly had a significant impact on their finances
through the
ebook price fixing investigation that resulted in settlements in the hundreds of millions of dollars from the publishers alone.
With the typically lower
price of
ebooks through Smashwords, the opportunity for libraries to stock titles for their patrons and to increase author discoverability increases.
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 upload your print and / or
ebook to the various retail channels
through their distribution process, they will take a portion of each sale: «Dependent upon wholesale discount, IngramSpark publishers receive 45 — 70 % of their list
price on print titles sold
through the distribution channel, minus manufacturing costs (some markets may vary).
With the incredible tools available
through digital publishing, the cost to purchase and give away the
ebook for the individuals who fund raised could have been negligible compared to the cost of a print edition (note: unfortunately, the publisher has set the
ebook edition
price of this title at $ 9.99, higher than the $ 8.52 per print copy that the protest organizers spent
through Rediscovered Books).
Because
ebooks are
priced low, potential customers and clients can learn about you and your expertise from your book, and then contact you
through your website for your services or products.
1) Produce lots of titles to increase name recognition and sales overall; 2) Lower your
price point and the readers will follow; 3) Don't worry about
pricing, just focus on great writing; 4) Be a guest blogger, have your own blog, tweet, join forums, talk to readers, get reviews; 5) Use your
ebook as a promotional piece to sell classes, services, and other products; 6) There is no magic bullet, just keep doing everything and eventually you'll break
through.
Normal
price is # 7.99 per month for unlimited access to millions of Kindle
eBooks for use either
through a Kindle device or on a compatible smartphone or tablet app.
«As far as summer reading goes, we have a constant series of promotions and
pricing that we'll be expanding
through the summer months,» he explained, while mentioning a larger focus on
ebooks and devices for the fall when school will resume.
Coker included several graphs in his post that demonstrated a fairly steady
price for
ebooks through Smashwords after the switch to the agency model, indicating that it did not cause the
price increase that critics feared.
The European
ebook market has made headlines recently for some of the myriad changes being made to bookselling practices — particularly in book
price matching and VAT — that will hopefully make digital reading a more widespread practice, and with greater access to digital content
through partnerships such as this one greater demand for
ebook accessibility will follow.
And at only a 15 % royalty rate for
ebooks sold
through Smashwords, the platform offers the authors a greater percentage of their sales
price in royalty than platforms like Amazon or Barnes & Noble, who take 30 %.
But in the email, Amazon very pointedly mentioned that this settlement, if it goes
through, will ensure that their customers continue to receive the best possible
prices on
ebooks.
Moreover, while the app is free to use online, viewing recipes
through the app on mobile devices — which is currently only available for iOS but with an Android release set for later this week — costs $ 1.99, as well as the $ 10.99 to $ 24.99 purchase
price of the
ebooks.
I just bought a hardcover of Stephen Pinker's latest book because it was about the same
price as an
ebook; I would have bought
through Kobo if Kobo offered the right
price point (they didn't, but Indigo sure did).
We are actively working to persuade libraries to purchase titles - and keep them forever -
through our service, instead of continually licensing
ebooks at higher
prices from other services.
It is also worth noting that in the
ebook ecology, established authors can leave their publishers and sell directly
through channels like Amazon, charging lower
prices than commercial publishers and perhaps making greater profits.
Certain digital content is distributed under an agency
pricing model in which the publishers set fixed
prices for
eBooks and NOOK receives a fixed commission on content sold
through the eBookstore.
Apple encouraged the agency
pricing model for
ebooks sold
through its
ebook store for the iPad.
Random House has countered this claim saying, «Our publishing house, which is the only one of the Big Six to make its
ebooks available without restriction for library lending, is setting the library
ebook price with «far less definitive, encompassing circulation data» than the sell -
through information used to determine retail
pricing.»
He launched the company in 2012 with the mission of helping readers discover authors
through daily
ebook price promotions.
Luckily, I am not new to marketing, so as I ramp up for the release of my third
ebook, Volume III, This Is / Is Not the Way I Want Things to Change of The Spanners Series (sci - fi / romance, adults / YA / NA), which goes into pre-orders @ half -
price on 11/1/15, $ 1.99
through 12/7/15, then becomes $ 3.99 on release day, 12/8/15, with a cover reveal on 10/26/15 on http://www.aleshaescobar.com), I am pleased to discover that I have already accomplished (but need to update) most of what's on the above list.
Applebaum said that the publishing house, which is the only one of the Big Six to make its
ebooks available without restriction for library lending, is setting the library
ebook price with «far less definitive, encompassing circulation data» than the sell -
through information used to determine retail
pricing.
Well, suffice it to say that individuals and groups associated with the defendants are sounding off
through the comment process, and they are making very strong claims to the general effect that DOJ's efforts to protect consumers against
ebook price - fixing are misguided, because the DOJ should instead be protecting the interests and the distribution infrastructure of the same publishers who colluded with Apple to raise
ebook prices by 30 to 100 percent back in 2010.
But that just goes to show how much fun I had browsing
through all of the sale -
priced ebooks today.
But
through some initial experimentation and a bit of research, we've at least picked out a «soft range» for
pricing eBooks for libraries.
After countless hours of legal battle, Macmillan has finally agreed upon a settlement that appeased Judge Denise Cote and the plaintiffs in the lawsuit that alleged five of the Big Six publishers conspired with Apple to fix the
prices on
ebooks sold
through online retailers.