I also an very clear on the lack of visibility because
of ebooks selling through international sites.
So the standard royalty on
ebooks sold through the site would increase to 35 percent and the standard royalty on hardcover books would increase to 25 percent.
The higher royalty rate enables indie authors to price lower while still earning more
per ebook sold.
With ebooks sold through digital retailers, there is no such thing as shelf space.
In the area of fair pricing,
many ebooks sell for as much as their paper counterparts.
The number
of ebooks sold was smaller than they expected so the payment was increased.
Parliament in the United Kingdom recently convened to discuss the issue of lowering the VAT on
ebooks sold in the country.
The top selling self - published authors earn most of their money from
ebooks sold on Amazon.
Whatever his problem (other then those he outlines in the piece which I don't believe hold up) if Tonkin really thinks what he has written, he's either not paying attention as closely as he should be or willfully ignoring reality of
ebooks sold by authors to the readers.
It is obvious that Apple tries to stop users to use jailbroken devices to somehow strip the DRM
from eBooks sold in Apple's store.
EditionGuard provides customers freedom with
eBook selling tools that are easy to use and customize, built on top of an industry standard DRM system for security.
The already renowned Secure - eBook fully automated purchase process that makes it easy for you to quickly start selling your eBooks
To a large degree, gone are the days
when eBooks sold for $ 97, but it's extremely unusual for people to sell eBooks on their own site for only $ 2.99, the going rate for Kindle books.
Amazon, who started life as a book and
ebook selling website, was at one time the darling stepchild of the publishing industry, a way for the once - Big Six to reach a potentially larger... [Read more...]
The announcement of a major push
into ebook selling by Canadian book chain Indigo might carry a lesson for other international markets such as New Zealand.
Following the study from the BISG, there have been hardly any changes in terms of
new eBooks sold in units and dollars.
The range of sales is rather dramatic, everything from an author who has sold less than 60 of their Indie e-books to another who is in the five figures in
Indie ebooks sold.
This closed system of
ebook selling doesn't foster book discovery and can lead to niche specific bookselling while isolating potential readers who are trapped by the retail platform associated with the e-reader device or app they choose.
Even they are surprised too, they never imagined that it will happen before the Spring but during the holiday's rush, Amazon saw 115
kindle ebook sold to every 100 paperback edition, as said by UberGizmo.
We have already seen attempts by traditional publishers to reclaim the business they lost to Amazon and other online sellers by establishing
eBook selling platforms of their own.
This group is a place where readers can find links to
great ebooks sold for a $ 1.00 or less, including free ebooks!
Amazon reportedly wants better terms on the
Hachette ebooks it sells, and has flexed its muscle by removing the presale buttons on some Hachette titles and delaying shipments of certain books.
According to the WSJ, the new contracts resulted in higher ebook prices and
fewer eBooks sold.
The first few days after Christmas mark the
biggest ebook selling days of the year as millions of readers around the world unwrap their new e-reading devices and smart phones start loading them with new ebooks to read.
Here are the stats to back up my claim that
ebooks sold as part of an Amazon Giveaway don't change the book's sales rank and are NOT reported as books sales (yes, you get paid KDP royalties, but they do not otherwise count as sales):