Indeed many people in Italy are acquainted with schemes in which you join a «club» that would send you a book every month (unless you opt - out month by month, and if you don't you have to pay the price for it), and would sell books at a price much
lower than the bookstore.
Not exact matches
They are very different
than bookstores because they provide enormous
low cost access to reading.
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.
Be aware that royalties paid to authors by self - publishing platforms for
bookstore distribution can be
lower than other sales channels.
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).
I've read articles on some sites by particular comic shop retailers who tout the
low Bookscan numbers as some sort of «proof» that their stores in the Direct Market are the superior means to get comics, rather
than actual
bookstores.
Barnes & Noble has reported
lower losses
than last quarter and strong
bookstore and digital content sales, but Nook revenue remains flat.
There's so much concern, it seems to me, about the state of publishing —
bookstores closing or stocking fewer and fewer books, publishing houses not accepting new submissions, or not supporting the authors they've already signed, or offering far
lower advances
than they once were.
There's so much concern, it seems to me, about the state of publishing —
bookstores closing or stocking fewer and fewer books, publishing houses not accepting new submissions, or not supporting the authors they've already signed, or offering far
lower advances
than they once -LSB-...]
Less
than 1 % of books make it into a
bookstore and the numbers are even
lower for self - published books.
While Chegg discounts of up to 90 %, most discounts will be
lower, but the prices will still be way
lower than some of the major websites, and definitely
lower than your local campus
bookstore.