Sentences with phrase «lower than ebooks»

This only works in industries where there are significant barriers to entry, but its hard to imagine a market where the barriers to entry are lower than ebooks.

Everyone says print sales are lower than ebooks.

Note: this Hardcover being the same price or lower than the ebook price is not something I've ever noted with a John Scalzi book.

Not exact matches

I've priced it much lower than my other ebooks in hopes that everyone can afford a copy and maybe one more to share!

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

It is important to note that you can not price your ebook lower than $ 0.99.

Low ebook prices depress the dollar volume to less than half the unit volume.

Then often the ebook price is just 2 - 3 Euros lower then than the price for the hardcover book, later when you can buy the paperback it is usually cheaper than the ebook, because that was priced after the hardcover and since book prices are fixed, it usually can not be changed easily.

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.

I also couldn't help noticing that Amazon's ebook prices were often lower than those on the Kobo site...

Consumers expect prices to be lower than print books, largely because ebooks have long been a clearly inferior product to print.

While the number that believe ebooks are held to a lower standard than print actually increased over 2014 (12.8 percent versus 9.8 percent), that might be because the bar is rising, and most respondents believe that the quality of digital publishing continues to improve, with 52.5 percent rating most eBooks as either good or excellent compared to 46.5 inebooks are held to a lower standard than print actually increased over 2014 (12.8 percent versus 9.8 percent), that might be because the bar is rising, and most respondents believe that the quality of digital publishing continues to improve, with 52.5 percent rating most eBooks as either good or excellent compared to 46.5 ineBooks as either good or excellent compared to 46.5 in 2014.

Due to the relatively low prices for English ebooks (German ebooks cost mostly the same than the print edition), this trend will increase.

I find it curious that the ebook royalty rate is 50 % for direct sales, lower than the 70 % rate most self - published authors get for their e-books on Amazon.

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.

I'm not sure I'd spend more than $ 6.99 on an ebook (which is the most I've ever spent on one) for generally the reasons you listed above and I see the cost of producing an ebook (including self - delivery, no use of gas, etc) as lower.

In short, the argument that ebook versions of a novel should cost way less than paperback novels due to a lower marginal cost of production simply doesn't match the actual numbers.

That may change as more so - called digital natives progress into higher education and as ebook reader technology gets better, but for now, 60 % of students would rather pay for a low - cost printed book than use a free digital version.

Clearly the expectation that ebooks should cost a lot less than paper copies of the books because of lower marginal costs of production doesn't match the reality that marginal cost of production really IS marginal even for paper books.

The ultimate goal of these immoral file uploaders is to happen to snag buyers with the low cost of the «ebook,» often less than one dollar.

Even though some market segments may well have a much lower percentage of ebook buyers than others, sales successes are likely to boost the sales of all of a title's formats.

A few dissatisfied nutters keep sending you support emails because the ebook edition you released is much worse than the print edition because it was a money - losing low - budget production.

ebooks sell at a lower price point than other information products such as ecourses, which means you have to sell a lot to make money.

Prices can be set at a maximum value far lower than the average prices of most competing ebooks and the lack of a professional marketer can cause many self - published books to be lost among the countless other books for sale on sites like the Amazon Kindle bookstore or Barnes & Noble's online bookstore.

After all, it offers the highest percentage royalty, and eBooks are usually priced lower than print books, which appeals to readers who might not want to drop $ 15 on an author they've never heard of.

«Amazon keeps promoting the idea that an eBook should cost much, much less than a hardcover because the cost of producing it is so much lower.

Even though the retail prices of ebooks are usually lower than print, the actual dollar value of ebook royalties may, surprisingly, be higher!

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.

Generally speaking, eBook production budgets can be lower than a typical print budget, but you'll need to plan for a budget upfront as you would with print or any other product for that matter.

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.

Despite some criticism about piracy concerns, Redmayne countered with evidence that piracy of the Harry Potter titles is actually 25 % lower than when the titles were only available in print; additionally, he recounted incidences when the ebooks were actually placed on file sharing websites, but most were quickly removed when it became known that all of the ebooks are sold with an embedded digital watermark, essentially tracking the person who uploaded the pirated copy.

Obviously, in almost all cases, the ebook price is significantly lower than the tangible version.

While there was some data from the Center for Teaching through Children's Books that seemed to show children actually learn less and retain less content and demonstrate a lower level of comprehension when reading an enhanced ebook app (there's simply too much distracting content that takes away from the story line), Russell Hampton, president of Disney Publishing Worldwide, countered that argument with the explanation that e-readers are engaging reluctant and disinterested readers in higher numbers than ever before.

They will copy edit a 60,000 - word eBook for under $ 1,200, which is 50 % lower than other competing premium offers.

«If we don't publish ebooks, our publications still would appear on a lot of websites and forums, from which people can download the publications free of charge, even though with lower quality than the printing versions.

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.

When Amazon opened its Kindle store earlier this year, a huge price war broke out amongst the major chains forcing ebook prices down to 50 % or lower than the retail price.

February 2012 Douglas County (Colo.) Libraries launches a new initiative to enable libraries to host ebooks directly rather than to depend on an intermediary company, and to provide libraries with options for lower costs and more control.

Rather that suggesting that Amazon are exploiting their leading market position and charging for books that are free elsewhere, previous surveys have revealed that Amazon generally prices eBooks lower than Nook or Sony.

Fowlie was speaking to the fact that audiobooks continue to have a much higher price point than both ebooks and print books, and that audiobooks tend to sell well given the low volume of content available to audiobook fans.

The payout percentages for audiobooks are generally much lower than the 60 - 80 % most ebook authors earn.

their prices for ebooks are often lower than B&N.

While self - pubbed authors generally price their ebooks lower than $ 9.99 (the royalties they receive by Amazon are cut in half otherwise), indies have responded to the new ruling with an average 5 % price increase.

I turned down a five - figure advance on a book and traded it in for a much lower one — but it was print - only and I was more than willing to take a lower advance to keep my audio and ebook rights.

When you read blog posts and articles about people calling for lower eBook prices, remember that this is not a call to a universal 99 cents price point, but a wake - up call for the fat cats in the NY publishing houses, who still believe that having an illiterate like Snooki «write» a book is a better idea than giving an actual writer a chance.

But Digital Book World has been at work on a more accurate picture of how books are selling, since the typical lower priced indie ebook may sell more copies but actually make less money than a higher priced, traditionally published book.

While this still results in a royalty, that amount is far, far lower on a print edition than on an ebook.

With its outrageous download fees for ebooks (megabyte for megabyte, over five times more expensive than Verizon cell phone data charges) and the low royalty it pays on books outside a narrow price range ($ 2.99 - 9.99), Amazon is probably earning double the profits on ebooks as competitors such as Apple or various national ebook retailers.

Its scheme creates pressures that can triple an ebook's cost at the low - end and more than double its price at the high end.