Sentences with phrase «ebooks revenue up»

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If compare the cost to giving away a free Kindle (or highly subsidized higher - end Kindle) to every Prime member who signs up or re-ups for two years vs. a) the revenue gained from the ebooks purchased by those customers, b) the revenue from new Prime members, and c) being able to offer a package which is basically free shipping on all Amazon orders + Netflix + Spotify + a ton of free books + a free Kindle... that's got ta make good economic sense for them, right?

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.

If they're talking about giving up the ebook revenue as well as the print revenue; you're wrong... that would cripple them.

Why would they give up all their ebook revenue during negotiations when people might be buying the Hachette books from other online retailers now and the authors are getting their royalties from those sales?

The bookseller chalked up the disappointing Nook revenue to «lower unit selling volume» and dwindling ebook sales, particularly when compared to the release of The Hunger Games and Fifty Shades of Grey trilogies this time last year.

The per - unit option takes into consideration the early market nature of eBooks where publishers may not achieve significant revenues until this market ramps up.

Parents and kids alike are turning to ebooks with revenue jumping up 233 % in the first quarter of 2012 with over 64 million in sales.

And then there's the ebook - as - an - app potential for the iPad and tablet market, which is indisputably cool and the wave of the future, but also requires authors to become software developers, with far greater up - front costs and not as big a revenue stream yet.

The ebook revenues for children's ebooks are up to $ 190.6 M for the year, comprising nearly 13 % of all sales!

Fiction sales made up 86 % of the revenue from ebook sales in 2015 (compared with only 32 % in physical books).

Also, if you run a Free Kindle eBook site and your customers end up downloading over 20,000 free ebooks, in any given month, you are also ineligible from making any revenue.

As the study showed, digital book sales for about one - third of the ebooks publishers now make up double digit revenue, and the sales of ebooks in many categories are continuing to grow.

Washington, DC; Sept. 28, 2017 — eBook revenues for trade book publishers were up 2.4 % in May 2017.

And Amazon reports that their sales of ebooks are up this year in both units sold and revenue, so they are getting more customers from somewhere.

According to the latest numbers from the Association of American Publishers, adult trade ebooks brought in $ 1.3 billion in revenue in 2013, up 3.8 % from $ 1.25 billion in 2012.

How can they give up their share of revenue if they don't have any revenue from ebooks?

I compared the Author Earning's blog's May 2015 report to its May 2014 report (to best match the data in the New York Times story, which is for the first five months of the year) and found that publisher ebook revenue is only up 1 %, while Amazon's revenue is down 1 % (which, it should be noted, contradicts the company's public statements).

Whether the retailer will immediately slash prices on ebooks to drive sales of its new larger Kindle Fire tablet to be released in November, or whether it will continue to keep the price of ebooks at the higher publishers» price in order to make up for past lost revenues will be determined later.

Barnes and Noble has experienced declining revenues for hardware and ebooks for the last full calender year and the company is looking to shake things up.

In the first quarter of 2012, parents and kids alike are turning to ebooks with revenue jumping up 233 % in the first quarter of 2012.

[Publishers»] savings on printing, binding and distribution make up for the lower revenue from lower ebook prices — and increased profitability is coming entirely off the backs of authors.

And the latest, as written up by the Digital Book World staff in Codex Group: Ebooks to Level Off at 30 % of Publishing Revenues, With Caveats, is the perpetually predictive Peter Hildick - Smith of the oracular Codex Group.

And I think that's backed up by the fact that many ereaders are priced about the same, even those (kobo, iriver, etc) that don't have an ebook store to collect extra revenue from.

Once you've converted the print reader to ebooks (and especially if you shift them to your ecosystem) there'll be loads of time to drive up the revenue you earn from that consumer.

Incentive to digitize Most interestingly to me is that by opening up the hitherto closed incremental revenue option, Amazon is encouraging publishers and authors to make old books available both in print and as ebooks.

With BookBaby, independent authors keep up to 100 % of the net revenue generated from their eBook sales.

Quoting the report how the sales of eBooks have surpassed hardcovers since June, eBook revenue is forecast to reach approximately six times higher in 2016 — up to $ 11 billion.

Washington Post — Amazon makes an offer to Hachette authors — this article takes an interesting look at the stats, which indicate that Hachette would have much more to lose by giving up revenue from their author's ebooks than Amazon — «According to Hachette's Web site, the publisher makes approximately 33 percent of its sales from e-books; the New York Times reported that around 60 percent of that business comes through Amazon.

If the ebook revenue stream dries up, then there's no money to provide services.

Publishers are already struggling to grow their ebook revenue fast enough to make up for their ongoing print revenue decline.

Get the ebook version of your book content securely set up directly (and non-exclusively) with Amazon Kindle (your likely main revenue source) and with Smashwords (your access to all the ebook selling worlds beyond Amazon).

So while revenue is down in other formats, the explosion of revenue in ebooks more than makes up for it:

All the other reader apps tend to follow their lead and since books now represent such a small slice of Amazon's overall revenue it would be great to see some other ebook retailer step up and innovate with a service like this.

This is what doesn't make sense to me: Tradpub seems to want higher ebook prices to protect print, but then they admit that ebooks make up almost half their revenue, and help to prop up print.

You have an idea to create an eBook to get your message out to a broader audience, set up a passive revenue stream.

Agency publishers are now giving up 30 % of the revenue from their higher - price ebooks, and they are selling fewer numbers at those prices.

The majority of publishers (69 %) report that ebook sales make up 1 - 10 % of their revenue, while 17 % of publishers derive 11 - 20 % of their revenue from ebook sales.

HarperCollins refers to in its quarterly report that eBook revenue has significantly gone up to 22 % revenue up from 15 % last year.