Not exact matches
This is partly out
of experimental
interest to see if this improves my numbers any, and partly just because I've been hand -
selling the
ebook editions for five bucks each — and bringing the base price down to $ 4.99 USD is more in line with that.
One
of the big facets that has a ton
of interest in the publishing sector is
selling Kindle compatible
ebooks from its own independent website.
At stores
selling only
ebooks, customers can either purchase the special edition
of How to Be
Interesting for themselves or give the
ebook as a gift with just the click
of a button.
If there is such a large discrepancy in the
interest versus accessibility
of the devices, it should come as no surprise that the textbooks are not
selling as well as other types
of ebooks.
If you're
selling a 99
eBook, there will be little
interest in it, even if you're splitting 75 %
of the profits.
And, if they know by page two who did it and why, you will likewise lose their
interest (and their recommendation and five - star rating that helps you
sell more copies
of your
eBook).
Agents write the next chapter
of the
ebook revolution — Agents, serving the economic best
interests of the best -
selling authors, will bring new credibility to self publishing by encouraging authors to proactively bypass publishers and work directly with
ebook distribution platforms.
But it's
interesting to note that all
of the top 10 best -
selling Kindle
ebooks are also available in print editions.
Selling a «Part One»
of your novel as a mini
ebook can also help you test your market, build
interest and an audience, and underpin your budget for the print edition and subsequent marketing.
«One presentation
of widespread
interest was Ingram chief content officer Phil Ollila «s new data — commissioned by Publishers Launch — analyzing how the rise
of ebooks affects what is
sold in physical bookstores.
Three years ago, major publishers refused to
sell ebooks to libraries, no one knew how to download an
ebook file, and public library staff were hit with an unforeseen surge
of patron
interest in
ebooks.
The idea
of Apple
selling Amazon's
ebooks is particularly
interesting, given the Department
of Justice's lawsuit against Apple and book publishers for allegedly colluding to set
ebook prices.
As the
ebook market continues to mushroom, reaching # 92m in the UK last year, this data is becoming significant enough for publishers — who until now have only known how many copies
of a book they
sell, not how that book is actually read — to take an
interest.
Now the price
of the primary product becomes secondary: it is in the company's best
interests to price - dump top -
selling ebooks in order to stimulate the sale
of other products, or to up -
sell high - margin items through its incredible recommendation engine — something Amazon is extremely good at.
Neither
of them are
selling that many
ebooks, Apple will probably lose
interest now that the agency model has changed and Google has already started their retreat.
It's
interesting to see how
ebooks open up new markets where print books don't even go, though I wonder what sort
of books will actually
sell there.
Not that others can not be like you but most professional traders are more
interested on the material - robot, software,
ebook etc - they will
sell to you than your knowledge
of the market.