Sentences with phrase «lower than a publisher»

In the case of self published books, the cost of production can be much lower than any publisher, especially if the writer does her own cover and formatting, and trades editing services with other writers.

Not exact matches

He said that the company is working on the glitch, but added that the traffic count Apple has been presenting to publishers is «lower than reality.»

For example, a high - authority site (like an international news publisher) will always pass more authority per link than a low - authority site (like a domain that just emerged and posts questionable - quality content).

Ian Dale, owner of political publishers Biteback, said: «When trust in the institutions of state has never been lower, this critical and far - reaching book is more needed than ever.

Two of the actor's last three films have barely received theatrical release and, in between them, this Ghost Rider sequel became the rare Marvel flop, its indefensible $ 51.8 million domestic pull (less than half of its predecessor's take, though it also had half the budget) ranking it lower than all but four films to spawn from the comics publisher: The Punisher and its sequel, Jennifer Garner's Elektra (a baffling spin - off to Johnson's weak Daredevil), and the notorious Howard the Duck.

You know, if the publishers get wind of this kind of ballot - box stuffing — and even if they don't, if the Kindle sales are significantly lower than the number of requests — they'll probably start ignoring all requests, so one should probably ask for only ones he'd actually want to see on Kindle, so as not to ruin it for the rest of the people in the end.

IngramSpark distributes books to all online retailers including Amazon, but as mentioned above, their royalties (or publisher compensation as IS terms the amount paid to self - published authors) for Amazon are a bit lower than CreateSpace.Both companies distribute to brick - and - mortar stores.

All the publishers have to do is price ebooks lower than insanity level.

My publisher told me that Amazon sometimes puts a book ranking lower than it really is just to promote it.

The money the publisher takes in for an e-book ($ 9.09 for a $ 12.99 e-book) is lower than for a print book ($ 13 for a $ 26 list - price book).

Not surprisingly, the costs of an e-book are lower than for print and they yield more profit for the publisher.

If you are searching for an ebook, since self - publishers price are usually lower than 5,99, I recommend you use price in the filter section.

Lowering the barrier for that to take place might do more harm to the bottom line of publishers than not offering anything but physical tomes.

Major publishers are starting to see lower than expected quarterly results because of the novelty of the e-book has severely waned.

Royalties: Small publishers often pay a higher royalty rate than the big publishers, because they have lower costs.

In fact, lowering sales so much that the publishers are making less money than they made before.

But in general, I believe the quality of ebooks is much lower than that of printed books; from both traditional and self publishers.

Publishers are generally setting the retail prices for the eBooks at the same level (or sometmes roughly 10 % lower) than the print version of the same book.

The lowest royalties I've heard of are less than 5 % of net in genres like romance literature, where the publisher may even own the rights to the pen name under which the books are published.

Here you can see how a self - publisher can potentially sell a book at a lower cover price and still make more money per sale than a traditionally published author.

Guess what, guys, if you have more books published by authors and publishers not following the agency model and their prices are lower than agency model e-books — often substantially lower — e-books prices will appear to be lower overall.

«Traditional publishers will lower their prices on e-books to $ 9.99, because they'll realize that earning 70 % of $ 9.99 is better than earning 35 % of $ 14.99.

However, since traditional publishers own the means of mass production for print books, their per - unit costs are lower than mine, which means they can offer a print edition for less than I can.

I KNEW I had a wide - ope market that could feed well into a niche publisher, but the publisher passed on the grounds that they didn't do «beginner books» (since then, I've seen a book or three published by than that seems LOWER than the level I was writing at).

Publishers claim that Amazon's price point of $ 9.99 «devalues» books because it puts the e-book at lower than a hardback.

That may seem like a nightmare for traditional publishers, but just as innovations like the VCR and the compact disc seemed to spell doom for the movie and music industries and later turned out to be massive profit - generating mechanisms, publishers could find that e-books — even at much lower prices — are a boon rather than a disaster.

MB: I don't know if it's harder per se to place with larger publishers, but the increase in mid-sized and small publishers, especially digital - only presses, means that advances from larger publishers are lower, and often publishers will acquire to their digital imprint before or rather than print imprints because there's less cost and risk involved.

The only foreseeable advantage I see, other than making us nuts (which while fun, probably doesn't help amazon's bottom dollar), is to grow more home - grown kindle authors and to have more people buy into Author Central, thereby, in the end, making for lower ebook prices (which equals more units sold) and no traditional publisher middle man.

The Amazon - led $ 9.99 retail price point for the most popular e-books troubled the Publisher Defendants because, at $ 9.99, most of these e-book titles were priced substantially lower than hardcover versions of the same title.

She's got some damned good stuff in there, including about the Traditional Publishers showing higher than expect profits because of lower costs.

These upfront fees can be much less than compared to some vanity publishers, but this is reflected in the lower quality of services such as cover design and editing.

But Outskirts Press offers complete self - publishing services for a lower price than competing publishers: including book design, distribution, and marketing.»

I can believe the «Big 5» publishers would see lower ebook sales since they charge so much, but there are way more options available than what they offer.

The new prices could give HarperCollins a competitive advantage — at least temporarily — if its books are priced lower than those of other major publishers.

It is also worth noting that in the ebook ecology, established authors can leave their publishers and sell directly through channels like Amazon, charging lower prices than commercial publishers and perhaps making greater profits.

None of the major publishers that I know of sell Amazon as a «deep discount» account where authors would get a much lower royalty rate than a traditional sale.

Excerpt «WASHINGTON (AP)-- President Barack Obama announced Thursday that major book publishers will provide more than $ 250 million in free e-books to low - income students and that he is seeking commitments from local governments and schools nationwide to provide library cards to all students.»

As I described in a recent post, Eisler said that what made the decision to go with Amazon easy was that the web giant promised to not only get his books to market faster — both in print and electronic form — but also offered to sell them at a lower price than the traditional publisher, and apparently (although the terms of his deal weren't released) gave him a bigger share in the proceeds to boot.

A post by children's publisher Scholastic outlines some of the benefits to children's audiobooks, most notably perhaps being the erased stigma of a student reader having to use lower - level texts; once a student is listening to an audiobook, his peers have no way of knowing what he's reading and if that book is far easier than books read by the rest of the class.

Customers in the UK will enjoy lower prices when dealing with Amazon than with homegrown publishers and stores.

And what all four of these books have in common (besides being mystery and thrilled novels) is the fact that their Kindle editions are priced significantly lower than their paperback editions, whereas that's not the case for the authors» earlier books from other publishers.

One thing I found very cool is the cost of my books that I buy is much lower than if I went through my traditional publishers, even after their 50 % discount.

You receive much lower royalty rates from a publisher than you do from self publishing companies like Amazon.

Bookscan isn't totally accurate about e-book sales, though, so those authors» Bookscan numbers may well be lower than the sales figures they get from their publishers.

I've never gone into Christian publishing, but friends I know who have, are treated worse than even those working for the lower - end publishers in the non-Christian publishing world.

Asterling said: I've never gone into Christian publishing, but friends I know who have, are treated worse than even those working for the lower - end publishers in the non-Christian publishing world.

A low - priority queue of manuscripts and book proposals that were sent to a traditional publisher directly by the author, rather than through a literary agent.

You see, publishers pay a lower royalty percentage, according to The Authors Guild, than they do for print books.

What publishers apparently don't realize is that if they priced e-books lower, consumers would probably spend more overall on e-books than they do now.

Likewise, many books with poor editing and other sub-par production values are released by the big publishers, albeit the percentages are lower than in self - publishing.