I was also looking for ad journals from other popular authors and they're are all priced around $ 2 and $ 3 and the interesting this is, I think, one of the reasons that E-books haven't picked up in India as much is that there the publishers price them almost, like say, 20 %, 30 %, 40 %
lower than print books.
Most consumers — and some authors — want ebooks priced MUCH
lower than print books.
And by the way, I think e-books should be priced
lower than print books, but I think expectations of drastic reductions are unrealistic.
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.
Harlequin's e-books will be priced slightly
lower than their print books and be available in Adobe, Microsoft Reader, MobiPocket, Palm and Sony formats.
Consumers expect prices to be
lower than print books, largely because ebooks have long been a clearly inferior product to print.
When e-books were new, retailers set their prices the way they wanted, but
lower than print books — generally at $ 9.99 for new book releases.
• Book prices can be much
lower than print book prices.
Price: E-book prices are considerably
lower than print book prices.
The whole argument about ebook production costs being
lower than print book production costs is a complete red herring.
Not exact matches
Well - off kids have on average more access to
books and other
printed materials; just as important, their parents speak to them more
than low - income parents speak to their children — by some estimates, far more — and the speech they use is more complex.
(Of course, most retailers sell
print books lower than the list price as well.)
Doing the
print version through the KDP dashboard allowed me to set the price for the
book lower than I would have been able to if I went through Createspace or some of the other POD platforms.
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).
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.
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.
Imagine that she'll have a
print run of 8,000 copies (based on a number of authors I've talked to, this is about right — if you're getting more
books printed than 8,000, and your advance is $ 3500, you're being seriously
low - balled on the advance figure), and she'll sell 6,000 of those in the first year at 8 % of the cover price of $ 7.99, giving her $ 3835.20 in
print earnings.
But as an avid reader of
books, I'm hoping that this case would eventually result in prices of e-
books in Apple's iBookstore and elsewhere being much
lower than the prices of their
print counterparts.
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.
Our NEW
lower quantities, pricing and options make
printing a
book of your students» writing more affordable
than ever.
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.
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.
CreateSpace's per
book printing cost is a little
lower than IngramSpark, so your cost per
book is less.
You can rely on IngramSpark alone for
print book distribution (and it does fulfill orders coming from Amazon), but your profits will be
lower than if you were to use CreateSpace.
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.
Ebooks are usually — and increasingly — priced significantly
lower than the
print version of the
book, so if you're publishing to both formats, you need to consider the differential you're going to create between the formats.
At the moment, member states have the option to tax
printed books, newspapers and publications at a reduced rate (minimum 5 %) and some member states were granted the applications of VAT rates
lower than 5 % (super-reduced rates) including exemptions with a deductions right of VAT at the preceding stage (so called zero rates) to certain
printed publications.
The Kindle's variable fonts allow users with
low vision to read any
book in the Kindle Store — definitely a bigger range
than that available in Large
Print Books.
You see, publishers pay a
lower royalty percentage, according to The Authors Guild,
than they do for
print books.
The cost per
book for PoD is also going down, a few years ago, the PoD
printing cost was higher
than the retail cost of an offset
print book, then it dropped so it was
lower than the retail cost of a similar sized
book, but without sufficient margin to allow you to sell to bookstores at 50 % list price (let alone deal with the returns).
As long as Kindle Edition
books continue to be half of
print list prices or less, (and 30 % or more
lower priced
than print editions) there's nothing to worry about.
Fundamentally, there is a very real market force that will keep Kindle Edition prices much
lower than list prices —
printed books.
Ebooks are the perfect last minute gifts, since you can buy the
book (usually at a
lower price
than a
print book too) and send the file over to your mom's tablet, eReader, or handheld device with ease.
«Our remarkable global
book printing network, ebook creation tools, and distribution services are now available to a new generation of publishers and entrepreneurs to serve their markets at
lower cost, more profitably
than ever before possible.»
I have
printed them all offset, not
print - on - demand, because POD produces
lower quality
than offset for illustrated
books, plus I need larger
print runs.
The other thing to note when comparing
print and ebook pricing from the UK standpoint at least is that ebooks at VATable whereas
print books are not, meaning that 17.5 % (20 % from January 2011) of the RRP goes to the government, not the rights holders, so ebook revenue is
lower than print from the outset.
However, there are
lower profits per
book as
printing costs are higher
than bulk
printing, but the benefits of not spending the money up front often outweigh this.
First, price your ebook less
than printed equivalents, price them fairly (much
lower than print), and maximize the distribution of your
books.
That's why you'll sometimes see
print books priced
lower than e-
books: Agency pricing gives Amazon no control over e-book pricing, but it can still price
print books at whatever it wants.
This growth occurred despite the loss of numerous brick - and - mortar stores in 2012 and a
lower cost for e-
books than print books, which translated to higher quantities of e-
books sold.»
EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS / READINGS (* solo or two - person) Apparatus for a Utopian Image 2.0, Center and Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Prague, 2018 CV, YYZ Artist's Outlet, Toronto, 2017 * Artist's Rendering (DISTRESSED, RELAXED), AXENÉO7, Quebec, 2017 * You can tell that i'm alive and well because I weep continuously, Knockdown Center, New York, 2017 Apparatus for a Utopian Image, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, New York, 2016 Self - Titled (Materials for a 21st Century Room — or SWAMPED, EXHAUSTED, HESITATING), 8 - 11, Toronto, 2016 * Self - Titled (w / Aryen Hoesktra & Shane Krepakevich), Modern Fuel, Ontario, 2016 Local Tide (curated by PARALLELOGRAMS and Francesca Capone), S1, Portland OR, 2016 Double Visions, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, New York, 2015 From Line to Constellation, Granoff Center, Providence, 2015 Maximum Sideline: Postscript, Proxy, Providence, 2015 Use Values, SPRING / BREAK Art Show, New York, 2015 An Earthquake at the Race Tracks, Museo de la Cuidad, Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico, 2014 Classroom, NY Art
Book Fair, PS1, New York, 2014 Almost Everything, Eric Arthur Gallery, Toronto, 2014 Milieu, Skol Centre des Arts Actuel, Montreal, 2013 * More
Than Two (Let It Make Itself)[w / Josh Thorpe], The Power Plant, Toronto, 2013 Cultural Fluency, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, 2013 Sediment, G Gallery, Toronto, 2012 Survive.Resist, CAFKA Biennial, Kitchener - Waterloo, Canada, 2011 On
Printed Matter, [w / Josh Thorpe],
Printed Matter, New York, 2011 * Around YYZ [w / Josh Thorpe], YYZ Artist's Outlet, Toronto, 2010 - 11 * House Broken, Flux Factory, NY 2010 Reading the Garden [w / Josh Thorpe], Toronto Sculpture Garden, Toronto, 2010 * Titles, Art Metropole, Toronto, 2009 On Convenience [w / Josh Thorpe], Convenience Gallery, Toronto, 2009 * Vehicle [organized by WayUpWayDown curatorial collective], Nuit Blanche, Toronto, 2008 ERI 3: Eyelevel Re-Shelving Initiative, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, 2008 AT WORK, Toronto Free Gallery, Toronto, 2007 Rip Current, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, 2007 Tales from the Cyclop's Library, Third Space Gallery, Saint John, 2007 Unsurprising Geographies [w / Andrea Williamson], Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, 2006 Alectric 3, Alectric Audio [online exhibition] 2006 a / s / l, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, 2006 * RESIDENCIES Interrupt 3, Brown University, Rhode Island 2015 SHIFT, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, 2014 - 15 Artist - in - Residence, Workspace,
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 2013 - 14 Visiting Scholar, NYU Advanced Media Studio, 2013 - 14 The Decapitated Museum, The Banff Centre, 2012 Making Artistic Inquiry Visible, The Banff Centre, 2008 AWARDS Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation, 2018 - 19 Banff Centre, Residency Scholarship — The Decapitated Museum, 2012 Foundation for Contemporary Art, Emergency Grant, 2011 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant, 2011 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant, 2009 University of Toronto, Graduate Fellowship, 2007 - 09 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada Graduate Scholarship, 2007 - 08 Banff Centre, Residency Scholarship — Making Artistic Inquiry Visible, 2008 University of Toronto, David Buller Memorial Scholarship, 2007 NSCAD University, Simon Chang and Phyllis Levine Foundation Scholarship, 2006 New Brunswick Arts Board, Arts Scholarship, 2005 WRITING «Panorama of Our,» Plot, Claudia Weber, ed., 2015 «Anodyne: or X of Demarcation,» Rearviews II, Xenia Benivolski & Danielle St - Amour, eds., 2014 «On
Printed Matter» Artefact:, C Magazine C122, 2014 «Lana Turner Has Collapsed!