It was a beautiful
hardcover book priced at $ 28.
3 min readWhat you'll learn: Why
hardcover books priced below $ 30 are the most desirable for holiday gift purchases How readers find the books they buy as gifts and what influences their decision - making process Where shoppers go to find the books that... Continue Reading →
Please note that full - color
hardcover book pricing includes FREE full - color front and back cover printing.
Publisher Defendants feared $ 9.99 e-book prices would lead to the erosion over time of
hardcover book prices and an accompanying decline in revenue.
Not exact matches
The
price of this
hardcover book is very reasonable and affordable compared to some other options on the market today.
Addison has three
hardcover copies of my
book, The Open - Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole, to give away (cover
price $ 29.95), one for each day of the interview.
Discount: Receive 20 percent off the original
price for items that can be used in the classroom, including most
hardcover and paperback
books, toys, and games.
Publishing a
book means making strategic, and sometimes difficult, decisions around format (
hardcover vs. paperback),
Price (NEVER price a book to recoup your investment, price it to sell), trim size, title and subt
Price (NEVER
price a book to recoup your investment, price it to sell), trim size, title and subt
price a
book to recoup your investment,
price it to sell), trim size, title and subt
price it to sell), trim size, title and subtitle.
Book publishers have traditionally sold
hardcover books to retailers for about half their cover
price and let the retailers discount as they wished.
By high
pricing on ebooks, they are losing some impulse and cost conscience buyers, but by lower
pricing they would likely be driving people who would normally buy the more expensive
hardcover over to the ebook market, and not just for the
book in question but for future purchases as well.
The calculator instantly shows your
book cost
price for softcover or
hardcover book printing, easily helping you to controll your budgeted
book printing costs.
But some author mills inflate
prices even beyond that point, charging higher - than -
hardcover prices for trade paperback - size
books.
Similarly, the
hardcover version of the
book, The Chronicles of Downton Abbey which is sold along with the TV series also enjoys about # 3
price benefit for the
hardcover version which is sold at # 12.99 as an ebook.
Then often the ebook
price is just 2 - 3 Euros lower then than the
price for the
hardcover book, later when you can buy the paperback it is usually cheaper than the ebook, because that was
priced after the
hardcover and since
book prices are fixed, it usually can not be changed easily.
But as of this writing, Amazon is offering the
book for pre-order — something that many mom - and - pop independent bookstores aren't even set up to do — for less than $ 13 for the
hardcover; the Kindle edition is
priced just over $ 11, while Barnes and Noble and Kobo are offering the ebook edition for pre-order for more than $ 16.
So, when J.K. Rowling's new
book The Casual Vacancy came out with a
hardcover list
price of $ 35 ($ 21 on Amazon) and an e-
book list
price of $ 35 ($ 17.99 on Amazon — now $ 8.28), of course readers flocked to the print version for $ 3 more.
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Books targets a high - end reader, who buys full price books and reads paperback or hardcover in addition to e-b
Books targets a high - end reader, who buys full
price books and reads paperback or hardcover in addition to e-b
books and reads paperback or
hardcover in addition to e-
booksbooks.
For
books I love, I think nothing of buying them at full -
price hardcover prices.
From what we know so far, it looks like «
hardcover»
books will cost between $ 13 and $ 15, but the truth is that
prices will probably vary widely.
I myself have seen this if a
book's in transition from, say, trade or
hardcover to mass market and the ebook
price hasn't been adjusted yet; I had it happen when a Tanya Huff
book I wanted made the jump from
hardcover to mass market.
The heart of the matter was that it was so much less than $ 28, the average
price of a new
hardcover book.
If you don't intend to print a
book that's a
hardcover, make sure you only compare
prices with paperbacks.
Now, I either stick to the 99 cent eBooks or I buy used
hardcovers at $ 4 - 5 with shipping because I'm just not willing to buy 80
books a year at an average
price of $ 12.
Traditional publishers helped indie publishers a lot in this very early period by deciding that they didn't like electronic
books and
priced them up near
hardcover levels, as if an ebook was a specialty item.
Ignoring super-star authors who write their own tickets, the best rate most writers can hope for is 15 % of the cover
price of trade
hardcover books, with this percentage being achieved only after a certain number of copies have been sold.
On Mike Shatzkin's blog, he speculated that the publishers» decision to delay the e-book versions of some major upcoming titles isn't «a battle to rescue
hardcover books from
price perception issues caused by inexpensive ebooks» so much as it is about «wresting control of their ebook destinies back from Amazon.»
I don't think it's fair to lump all people reading pirated eBooks into the same category, because many of them are victims of higher institutions of learning that force their students to buy course material written by the teachers and published in very small print runs, jacking the
price of a
hardcover textbook up to over $ 100 in many cases, with a new edition coming out every year, making any «used»
book market obsolete.
It has the ISBN prefix of a St. Martin's Press
book, although St. Martin's
hardcover prices usually end in».99.»
The
book is published by Random imprint Doubleday, which means that Amazon controls
price and discounting in the Kindle Store just as brick - and - mortar booksellers control
price and discounting for the
hardcover edition.
Ebook
prices usually trend much less than soft or
hardcover alternatives, so if you have an ebook version, it is often (but not always)
priced less than a physical
book.
Will the
book's market prefer a high - end
hardcover edition if a
book is designed as gift item, despite the high retail
price it might command?
Now that we know Lulu readers are most likely to purchase and give
hardcover books that fall below the $ 30
price point as they share their holiday cheer, let's take a closer look at how gift - givers decide which
books to give as gifts.
In general practice,
hardcover books pay standard royalty rates of 10 %, 12 %, and 15 % of the cover
price — 10 % on the first 250,000 copies sold, 12 % on the next 250,001 to 500,000 copies sold, and 15 % on anything sold above 500,000 copies.
Our
hardcover prices include everything you need for a high - quality affordable, children's
book.
The
price for the nook at B&N is $ 9.99, the
hardcover is $ 23.08, so it appears Macmillan
books are indeed available on Amazon.
First, in response to publisher requests, it added new maximum
pricing tiers that increased permissible e-
book prices to $ 16.99 or $ 19.99, depending on the
book's
hardcover list
price.
so the publisher wants hard cover or near
hardcover prices, for a product that in effect is all gravy for them, they already did the work to get the
book edited and formated and proof read (for the dead tree version), effectively they want the same $ for a less valuable product.
At the present time, traditionally published authors still only receive the standard 15 % royalty, identical to what they would earn on
hardcover sales; the chairman explained the historical rationale for the 15 % paid out to authors, which was based on the assumption that the cost of producing the physical
book was about 70 % of the sales
price and the remaining 30 % was to be split equally between the author and the publisher.
To give a clear indication to its customers that Amazon is still in the game, it is providing select
hardcovers at a discount
price despite the fact that it is not able to sell the digital editions of Penguin
books.
Let's not forget the author, who is generally paid a 15 percent royalty on the
hardcover price, which on a $ 26
book works out to $ 3.90.
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).
I should not have been able to get a brand - new
hardcover for more than half off the list
price on the day the
book released.
As I searched for the publisher's list
price, too lazy to get up and pick up my copy from the other room, I found that Barnes & Noble lists the
book at $ 16.83 for the
hardcover and $ 11.84 for the Nookbook.
When they drill down into the numbers on their royalty statements, these writers find very few paper
books (
hardcover or mass market) selling at full retail
price.
Their interest in doing a deal with Apple stemmed from a desire to maintain the existing favorable
price structure for
books, which allowed them to milk the market for high -
priced hardcover versions of new novels before eventually releasing cheaper versions.
According to Nielson BookScan, the average
price of a print
book (
hardcover & paperback) around the same time was $ 14.79.
I know we generally print tradepaper editions of
hardcover books exclusively for Canada so that the
books are more reasonably
priced there.
A few years from now, when the grandchild loses all sentimentality and wants to raise some cash to buy the latest video game, the grandchild can sell the
hardcover on the used
book market and get a few more dollars toward the purchase
price — the
hardcover gives again.
That equal split is reflected in the traditional
hardcover royalty of 15 % of list (cover
price, that is, not the much lower wholesale
price), and in the 50 - 50 split of publishers» earnings from selling paperback,
book club, or reprint rights.