While this is likely a negative development for readers, indie - authors are likely positioned to benefit from
higher average ebook prices (especially when this average is skewed by titles coming from Big Five publishers).
Not exact matches
Authors are starting to approach their publishing business more professionally, which is reflected in
higher prices for
ebooks and increased
average earnings.
However, this percentage is still
higher than the
average market share of
ebooks in Germany in 2014 (about 5 %).
On
average,
ebooks are priced anywhere from $ 0 — $ 9.99 and in some cases
higher (Ahem... KMM Fever series * cough *...) depending on whether you have a traditional publisher or have decided to self - publish.
This is a fair amount of sales, but customers are voicing their disdain for
higher than
average ebook prices.
The
average order on my website is $ 30 which gives me a much
higher piece of the pie than
ebook sales.
At a certain level of success as an author, it makes a lot of sense to go for the much broader print market in large volume than the smaller
ebook market with
higher average royalties.
If your book has
high delivery fees on Amazon, you may earn more royalties on B&N, but for an
average ebook, you will still earn slightly more on Amazon.
They would do this by receiving their royalty on a
higher average price that readers might pay for a more useful
ebook — because royalties ultimately are based on what a book will sell for — and from the extra sales made to readers who want this specific feature.
The
average price of a top - 25
ebook best - seller has plummeted in the past several months, dropping from a
high of $ 11.37 in last Oct. to $ 8.23 this week (see chart below).
In recent years I have noticed that the trend is away from easy access to such
high quality content (paywalls, closures, metered reading, paid apps etc) it doesn't seem to have made a huge impact because rivals keep popping up in the free space (many for every one site that goes behind a wall of some kind) but the
average quality seems just a little lower (in some specific cases much lower) I do wonder if there won't at some point be a better market for paid non-fiction
ebooks (or paid non-fiction content generally) as more of the best stuff resides behind walls of some kind.
The self - published works have a
higher average rating than the
ebooks from major publishers while the major publishers are more than twice as expensive as Indie Published.
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