It pays 70 % only for
ebooks priced between $ 2.99 and $ 9.99.
«Parents of e-reading children seem most comfortable with
ebooks priced between $ 3.50 and $ 9.50.
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).
There's also the fact that Amazon's royalty rate is 35 % for ebooks priced below $ 2.99, while they offer 70 % for
ebooks priced between $ 2.99 and $ 9.99.
In the US,
ebooks priced between $ 2.99 and $ 9.99 earn you 70 % of list price, while books between $ 0.99 and $ 2.99, or above $ 9.99, earn you 35 % only.
For
eBooks priced between $ 2.99 and $ 9.99, Amazon pays royalties -LSB-...]
Also, what does this mean for Amazon's hideously over-priced file download fees for
ebooks priced between $ 2.99 and $ 9.99?
[4] This $ 0.15 / MB fee applies only if you're using the Kindle Direct Publishing 70 % royalty rate, which you can choose for
ebooks priced between $ 2.99 and $ 9.99.
Generally speaking, novel
ebooks priced between $ 2.99 and $ 5.99 work well, so we suggest that you stick to a price within this band.
Parents of e-reading children are most comfortable with
ebooks priced between $ 3.50 and $ 9.00, paying $ 7.00 on average for a children's ebook, a figure that has risen steadily over the past year
I don't know why anyone in their right mind would rather sell an ebook for $ 19.99 instead of $ 9.99, because Amazon offers twice the royalty amount for
ebooks priced between 2.99 and 9.99, and lowers that royalty for ebooks priced beneath and above that range.
As a reader I can honestly say that
ebooks priced between $.99 — $ 5.00 seems to be a very fair price and is guaranteed to suit most people's budget as well as providing a profit for the author.
All Amazon
eBook priced between $ 2.99 and $ 9.99 have 70 % royalty.
When
an eBook priced between $ 2.99 and $ 9.99 is purchased by a customer with a billing address in the United States, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Switzerland, United Kingdom (including Guernsey, Jersey and Isle of Man), Amazon will pay you 70 % of your average retail price for that month's sales, minus a small delivery fee determined by the file size of your book.
Not exact matches
Tips: The most recent research from Smashwords determined that the best
price for
ebooks was
between $ 2.99 and $ 3.99.
So the optimal
price point for an
ebook would be
between 3 and 4 dollars.
Reports as early as March suggested the Department of Justice had opened an investigation into an alleged 2010 deal
between Apple and the five publishers — Hachette SA, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster — that forced Amazon to raise
ebook prices.
I definitely agree with everyones opinion here about the
price different not being large enough
between an
ebook and the physical book.
Unfortunately, the switch to digital also carries with it a built - in flaw, which is that subscribers expect to read digital at a lower
price — hence a lot of the argument
between booksellers and publishers over
ebook pricing — and advertisers expect to pay less for digital ad space.
So the
price comparison you've done is
between the stores for the
eBook format.
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.
In all of these scenarios, the marginal cost of production is not going to be even $ 1 for a trade paperback and will rarely be over $ 1.50 for a trade hardcover (obviously the last big brick Harry Potter novels cost a teeny bit more due to sheer volume of paper needed to print a 750 page novel, but not * that * much more), meaning that if we're talking marginal cost of production as the difference in
price between a paperback and an
ebook, we're not talking about a huge difference in
price.
And if you
price your
ebook over $ 9.99, you need to know that you're losing money on every sale
between $ 10.00 and $ 19.99, because you're making half the royalty — but you're also killing your sales, because (as I mention in # 2 below),
ebook prices tend to be fairly elastic — raising the
price by a dollar can often lose you more than a dollar in sales.
Zoe — there may well be a beef
between Amazon and Macmillan concerning the
prices of
ebooks.
The previous post in this series discusses differences
between traditional and self - publishing when it comes to speed to market, and the next post discusses the opportunity to impact your success by setting the
price on your
ebook.
Amazon offers a 70 % royalty to authors when
pricing ebooks between $ 2.99 — $ 9.99 and 35 % outside that range or for specific regions if the book isn't in KDP Select.
In an interview with J - Source's Eric Mark Do, executives from paper said that they have typically only sold
between 100 to 300 copies of each
ebook they've published,
priced at $ 4.99 apiece.
One last fact: Even after the
price - fixing issue called «agency
pricing» is settled and over, nothing prevents publishers from charging Apple and Amazon and any other
ebook channel that comes online
between now and forever, whatever
price they want for an
ebook.
While Amazon originally worked under the wholesale model, which afforded the retailer the opportunity to sell
ebooks at less than their cost in order to push sales of their Kindle e-readers, the alleged collusion
between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers actually refers to their switch to an agency
pricing model, which allowed publishers to set the
price of the
ebooks for the retailers.
The other variable, though, is the difference
between the author's list
price for the print book and the
price of the
ebook.
Anyway, as you may or may not know, there has been a business discussion
between Hachette and Amazon regarding
ebook pricing and a hundred other things besides.
I think
pricing ebooks between $ 3 - 5 for full novels, $ 1 - 3 for novellas, and.99 - $ 1.99 ish for short stories is decent.
We know this is based on the
price difference common
between print and
ebook.
To summarize the information above:
Ebook retailers pay you around 65 to 70 percent of the retail price (that you set) if your ebook retails between $ 2.99 and $
Ebook retailers pay you around 65 to 70 percent of the retail
price (that you set) if your
ebook retails between $ 2.99 and $
ebook retails
between $ 2.99 and $ 9.99.
I also love that by cutting out the publisher I can keep my
ebooks at a low
price for my readers, generally
between $.99 and $ 3.99.
There has been much debate over the
ebook pricing dispute that's emerged
between retail giant Amazon and Hachette, a large multinational publisher.
Some early estimates that have come out of the
price fixing allegations
between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers state that consumers overpaid for their
ebooks by as much as a total of $ 250 million; all fifty states and the US commonwealths and territories are named in the class action suit to recover some of that overspending.
It has been estimated that the alleged collusion
between the publishers and the resulting requirement that Amazon raise its
ebook prices cost consumers around $ 250 million.
Seems Random House has libraries
between a rock and a hard place: first with
pricing then by cutting off other means for libraries to get
ebooks for circulation.
Pynchon's eight titles will go on sale today and will be
priced at fairly typical
ebook prices for bestsellers,
between $ 9.99 and $ 12.99.
I really haven't seen a benefit to either platform over the other, all of the stores have switched to agency
pricing so it is almost irrelevant
between B&N and Amazon from a
price and availability perspective in
ebooks.
When a hard copy book is released, it usually sells anywhere
between $ 20.00 to $ 50.00, where as the
ebook versions usually
price at $ 9.00 to $ 12.00.
The survey really drives home the point that there is a big disconnect
between the
prices of print books vs
eBooks.
The death grip of the fight, it seems, is that Amazon knows that if it allows Hachette to switch to an agency
pricing model — which was at the center of the far - reaching
ebook price fixing lawsuit
between Apple and the Big Five publishers — that other publishers will quickly follow suit, stripping Amazon of much of its power as a discount retailer.
The report shows not only the vast
price difference
between print and digital for library purchase, but also shows which publishers refuse to even sell
ebook titles to libraries.
While the US courts hear arguments about alleged
price fixing and anti-trust issues
between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers» effort to reduce Amazon's hold on the
ebook industry, a similar investigation has been going on in the EU over the same accusations.
Under the agency model — one of the factors that led the investigators to believe that anti-trust violations had taken place
between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers, including HarperCollins — publishers get to set the
price of
ebooks, rather than retailers; under the previous wholesale model, retailers could purchase books directly from the publishers, then turn around and sell those titles for any amount, even taking a loss on the books in order to boost sales of other products.
Atingo serves as an interface
between libraries and publishers, allowing publishers the freedom to
price their
ebooks as they see fit for library consumption.
Ebooks are usually — and increasingly —
priced significantly lower than the print version of the book, so if you're publishing to both formats, you need to consider the differential you're going to create
between the formats.