I've purchased over a hundred books since they changed the pricing and almost all of them were more expensive for
the the ebook than the discounted hardcover or paperback.
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Retailers can not
discount a book more
than ten percent now, and that restriction applies to both print and
ebooks.
Google is usually trying to sell
ebooks cheaper
than any other channel,
discounting the books at a pseudorandom way, depending on price and currency.
On top of this Amazon apparently demands a higher
discount from retail prices on
eBooks than it does on printed books.
If we
discount the statistical anomalies (like my posts debunking a few myths on the Icelandic political situation which are the most popular pieces I've ever written, unfortunately) an
ebook post tends to get more
than ten times more traffic
than a post on any other subject published at a roughly similar time of day and day of week.
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.
First,
ebooks sold better in 2013 by numbers of total sales, but actually resulted in less overall revenue
than they have in the past; this may stem from the understanding of where
ebook pricing should fall, and the fact that Amazon was able to
discount ebooks again after the stripping away of agency pricing following the DOJ lawsuit against the Big Five publishers.
IIRC, to add to the entertainment Kris Rusch mentioned late last year that not only did tradpubbers raise the price of their
ebooks, but Amazon
discounted the print versions of the same books to LESS
than the cost of the newly - raised tradpub
ebook prices.
So the question is, is an
ebook priced higher
than a print book due to Big 5 setting their
ebook prices substantively higher
than what was set by the market (okay, fine, by Amazon, mostly) or is it due to Amazon's standard
discounting practices?
I will gladly pay more
than $ 10.00 for an
ebook, if the price is 20 - 25 % of the
discounted hard cover price.
I read an average of a book per week, but buy much more
than I read because I am addicted to
ebook freebie and
discount sites.
Parents say they pay an average of $ 5.37 per
ebook, which is a 33 %
discount on what they say they will pay for paper books, but 40 % more
than they say they will pay for apps.
Algonquin, an imprint of Workman Publishing, is offering customers a
discount towards the purchase of an
ebook for each of its trade paperbacks purchased at more
than 300 Barnes and Noble locations throughout the month of July.
BUT — I also find better
discounts in print
than ebook, so
ebook is NOT always the best value when it comes from a traditional publishing house.
All the searches on Amazon for Big Five books show an agency - priced
ebook with a highly -
discounted print book, often cheaper
than the
ebook, alongside of it.
While most print books are available to libraries at a bit less
than the
discounted consumer cost at Amazon, these
ebooks average five times the Amazon consumer price.
Founded in 2013 by Peter Hudson and Marius Muja, as BitLit Media Inc., Shelfie grew to offer more
than 450,000
eBooks and audiobooks that booklovers could purchase at a
discount or download free of charge.
Discounting eBooks by traditional publishers is a slippery slope but it seems that they will inevitably be forced down that path sooner rather
than later.
On the one hand it reinforces the idea of
ebooks being «worth» less
than physical books and on the other, the price of physical books is too high, why else would retailers be selling them at such large
discounts.
The
discounts for
ebooks are generally much deeper
than that, often 2, 3 or more times that amount.
Recalling that when HarperCollins implemented more quickly post-settlement
than many anticipated, in September — and «there was consternation in some quarters because a Barnes and Noble spokesperson said they didn't have a new agreement with Harper, yet BN was appying
discounts to some Harper
ebooks» — Cader seeks and gets clarification from Hachette:
I think you will find many, many cases where the publishers are
discounting the
ebook editions more
than this, particularly on hardcovers.
In the free mass download example, the author will typically sign up several services that send out daily emails — often to more
than 100,000 subscribers — offering several free and / or
discounted eBooks, or perhaps several in each of multiple genres.
This is why the indie sales are primarily in
ebooks where there is no overhead and the books can be
discounted to a lower
than typical price to draw attention to them.
An earlier version of the story referred to «the amount of time that publishers are required to allow
discounting of their
ebooks,» rather
than specifying that the injunction extends the amount of time that publishers are required to allow Apple to
discount their
ebooks.
The usual process is to set a wholesale price based on a
discount off the suggested retail price of the
ebook or the printed book equivalent (expect smaller
discounts than you're used to).
«Since Random / Penguin is not yet back into agency pricing... is Random / Penguin holding their own better
than the others since Amazon is still presumably free to
discount their
ebooks?»
Since early May Amazon has been locked in a standoff with the French publishing house after Hachette refused to give Amazon pricing control over its
ebooks, which would have seen most of their digital titles
discounted to less
than $ 10 a book.
In other words, iIs Random / Penguin holding their own better
than the others since Amazon is still presumably free to
discount their
ebooks?
Additionally, authors who
discount less
than $ 2.99 will still be able to get the 70 % royalty option (which is usually only available for
eBooks priced between $ 2.99 — $ 9.99 inclusive).
Pricing an
ebook at a
discount to the hardcover release means pricing the digital like a tpb (and more
than the mass media paperback).