The cost for this ebook doesn't reflect economic reality in today's market given most consumer's budgets and it doesn't reflect how
little ebooks cost to produce as compared to paperbacks - let alone hardcover.
Not exact matches
So for a publisher, a
little investment of time getting a PDF -
ebook workflow added to the production process (and the admin of setting up and monitoring an agreement with a distributor), can provide a very low -
cost way to distribute
ebooks.
There's A Problem I've written before about how small markets, both English language ones like Ireland and other territories with major markets in similar languages, face challenges when it comes to
ebooks: So we have large publishers seeing sales internationally that they can EASILY service at
little marginal
cost.
While that price point may seem a
little high for an unknown author — many self - published authors keep their sales at $ 4.99 or less, with $ 2.99 being a fairly standard
ebook price for indie works — given the argument that the
cost of the book is in its initial creation, it makes sense.
Ebooks can be distributed at very
little cost, so that makes it easy to experiment with the format.
More and more public and school libraries also facilitate the lending of
eBooks, which makes them accessible for
little or no
cost.
Publish digitally, do nt overcharge for your
ebooks (9.00 for a digital copy of a book you can buy in paperback for 5bucks, when it
costs little to nothing per copy to make a digital version available?
App books are probably a
little less expensive than they should be for what readers get in the interactivity; certainly
ebooks should be cheaper than the static book since there are no printing and shipping
costs.»
It's sad how
little penetration
ebooks have gotten in the public school setting, especially when you consider the typical
cost effectiveness, the ability for students with disabilities to manipulate the book, and the fact that
ebooks won't become damaged and need to be replaced with even normal use.
This is a
little more involved, and it might add some
cost or time to the
eBook conversion process, but consider adding a note in your
eBook inviting people to write a review, and link to the review page for your book.
Half the problem is that Amazon make you all think that
ebooks should
cost that
little, and that's the point — they want everyone to fall in line with them because they can.
You do not have to hire an expensive self - publishing service to get your book distributed through Amazon and other online retailers; you can secure distribution on your own at
little or no
cost for both your
ebook edition or print book edition.
Also there are several more books below that you can read for
little or no
cost through the Kindle Unlimited subscription program on Amazon (like a Netflix for
ebooks).
For
little overhead and negotiable fixed
costs, they can go straight to an
ebook publisher and be up and running in short order.
I also agree that the 70 % royalty isn't quite as generous as it seems, considering how
little cost Amazon incurs in making
ebook sales.
The publisher has
little or no incremental out of pocket
cost to create
ebooks, therefore the income should be split in the same manner as subsidiary rights, which is generally 50/50.
It
costs the
ebook retailers very
little — just the
cost of storing and transmitting the files.
It
costs them very
little to publish their works now — just format it correctly to be converted to the retailer's
ebook format, and upload.
Many authors use possibilities digital publishing gives and launch
ebooks at no or
little cost.
Publishers seem to be scared of their digital editions and you can still come across that absurd scenario in which an
eBook will be priced the same as its hardback equivalent — this despite the fact a digital file
costs little to create and more or less nothing to store and distribute.
There is very
little cost to add additional excerpts from your other books to your
eBooks.
With a roughly 90 % share of the
ebook market, Amazon was selling
ebooks below
cost in what could only have been an move to destroy what
little competition it then had.