Sentences with phrase «higher priced books»

If an author can earn the same or greater income selling lower cost books, yet reach significantly more readers, then, drum roll please, it means the authors who are selling higher priced books through traditional publishers are at an extreme disadvantage to indie authors in terms of long term platform building.

Lower priced books almost always sell more copies than higher priced books.

But my feeling is that it's going to get much tougher for indie authors over the next 12 months now that the pricing model favors higher priced books.

What that will accomplish over time is that the lists will feature mostly higher priced books, setting a self - fulfilling prophecy for the trad pub titles (and of course, Amazon's own label) and hurting sales for lower priced titles.

If you have multiple books then you can afford to have a couple of higher priced books, while having one or two books priced at $ 0.99 c or $ 1.99 serving as the top of your funnel to more expensive titles.

Most of the higher priced books spend a bundle on advertising to get better known and to increase sells, but I have a low / no budget for this and rely on word of mouth to keep the price and headaches of accounting down to a minimum.

As far as the agreements with the agency publishers, it has been reported by people on both sides that the agreement forced less percentage on higher priced books by Amazon, meaning above the $ 9.99 level.

Mark went on to mention «If an author can earn the same or greater income selling lower cost books, yet reach significantly more readers, then, drum roll please, it means the authors who are selling higher priced books through traditional publishers are at an extreme disadvantage to indie authors in terms of long term platform building.

Which genres seem to do best in audiobook form (hint: longer books are often more appealing, because most Audible customers pay for credits that get them a book a month, so the longer, higher priced books seem to be better deals).

This may change one day, but, right now, all other factors being equal, higher priced books enjoy more prominent ranking positions in the popularity lists.

Preference will be given to series with higher priced books (3.99 - 5.99).

And that higher priced books are written by professional, traditionally published authors.

What I'm testing, and seeing, is that lower priced books in certain categories like the one I mentioned do not sell as well as higher priced books.

Now, why would a reader borrow a $.99 (in which they are allowed only ONE loan a month), when they could borrow a much higher priced book and buy my book for less than a dollar?

For a first time author that has no following or established readership, a high priced book from an unknown author will hurt sales and any chances of success.

Amazon saw a free preview on Barnes and Noble as being a complete book — and so given Amazon's policy to never have a higher priced book than any other outlet, they matched the price of the free preview.

You could always find 10 or so free books when you searched the Kindle Store by low to high priced books.

I'm more or less in the same boat as the writer of the message you read in this podcast regarding high priced books, and am voting with my wallet.

Not exact matches

Guests who believe they have experienced racism while using Airbnb may report instances of discrimination to the company or accept Instant Booking listings at a higher price than normal, but there's currently no policy in place to put them on a level playing field with other white guests.

Some, too, dangle free accommodations at a luxury hotel to lure you into a high - pressure sales pitch for timeshares or vacation clubs, while others make good on that free cruise for you, but require you to book a second guest at a grossly inflated price.

Some of the authors mentioned in the New York Times story worried that they'd sell fewer books if the company put higher price tags on them.

Booking Holdings (formerly Priceline), Amazon and Alphabet are the three highest - priced stocks in the S&P 500 and the only ones with prices that are four digits.

• Design is sturdy and dependable but doesn't have the flair of a MacBook Pro or Surface Book despite the high price

My main gripes about the Book 2, other than the high ticket price, is that I'm moving more and more away from a Windows machine for my daily work.

How to Sell at Margins Higher than Your Competitors: Winning Every Sale at Full Price by Lawrence L. Steinmetz, and William T. Brooks This is book discusses the importance of margins in setting prices.

The post flags a few trends: Investment rounds are happening at higher prices, investors are increasingly collaborating with each other, and many of the start - ups are booking revenue before they seek funding.

Whether anybody books these high - priced packages, the wedding gives hotels an opportunity to associate their brand with something special.

«Prices have declined at the high end of the market but remained steady for more moderately priced units; bidding wars have become noticeably less prevalent,» the Beige Book said.

The low Canadian dollar used to be the main culprit in higher book prices, but lately the difference is more likely due to the influence of Canadian copyright rules, which grant Canadian distributors exclusivity — and allow them to add up to 10 % to the price of U.S. books.

From what i've observed, prices for items like music and books tend to be pretty sticky (or even declining), so over the long term you'd probably need to counteract that with higher sales.

Compared to the broad XIC, XEG has a) a price to earnings ratio that is only slightly higher, b) a price to book ratio that is lower, c) a debt to equity ratio that is about half of XIC, d) a dividend yield that is comparable and e) profit margins that grew 30 % this year versus 18 % for XIC.

For many companies, P / E ratios seem benign, while price / revenue and price / book ratios are ridiculously high.

Expectations for higher rates could eventually boost pricing in their mainly fixed - rate mortgage books, too.

The initial public offering price is substantially higher than the pro forma net tangible book value per share of our common stock immediately following this offering based on the total value of our tangible assets less our total liabilities.

The anticipated initial public offering price of our common stock is substantially higher than the net tangible book value per share of our outstanding common stock immediately after this offering.

O'Shaughnessy took a variety of metrics — the price / sales ratio (PSR), price / cashflow, price / book and price / earnings — and then collated the 50 stocks from the broad US market which displayed the highest, and lowest, for each metric.

A 2012 Credit Suisse Research Institute report evaluated the performance of 2,360 companies globally over six years and found that companies with one or more women on boards delivered higher average returns on equity, lower leverage, better average growth and higher price / book value multiples.

The assumed initial public offering price of $ per share, which is the midpoint of the estimated offering price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, is substantially higher than the net tangible book value per share of our outstanding common stock immediately after this offering.

Brazilian equities, as measured by the MSCI Brazil Index, are 20 percent cheaper than their 2014 highs on a price to book basis.

The sale price was higher than the book value, the company said.

Effectively, a high yield (D / P) is just the inverse of a low price - to - dividend ratio (P / D), a cheapness measure similar to a low price - to - earnings or low price - to - book ratio.

Joel has also written a couple of books over how to put a strategy in place to by cheaply priced stocks with higher end yields.

The company noted that advance bookings for 2012 were fetching higher prices.

As we discuss in detail in the book, while much improved, Quality and Price is not a perfect strategy: the better returns are attended by higher volatility and worse drawdowns.

A figure that was subsequently increased repurchase share at prices no higher than 20 percent premium to book value.

But the uniqueness of the business model, the hidden value of the land on the books and the incremental benefit shareholders receive from higher oil and gas production and prices make it worth writing about.

They've been selling properties at deep discounts to already written - down book values, but at prices high enough to more than justify today's depressed share price.

Trading that occurs at low multiples of earnings, cash flow or book value for long periods of time might indicate that the company or the entire sector is in trouble, and that stock prices may not move higher.»

Trading near tangible book value, Goldman offers an attractive price for a business that earns a significant amount of revenue from high return asset management and underwriting and advisory services.

Online booking is a crowded field and the price it is asking looks high.