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.
Not exact matches
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.
Most of them are priced well below their
print counterparts, normally around 20 %
lower than the paperback
version.
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.
«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.
«If we don't publish ebooks, our publications still would appear on a lot of websites and forms, from which people can download the publications free of charge, even though with
lower quality
than the
printing versions.
With a 70 % royalty and no
printing or shipping costs, you are likely to make a higher profit selling your ebooks at a
lower price
than the
print version.
Publishers agree to disagree on the vexed issue of pricing, although the majority think digital
versions should command a
lower price
than their
print counterparts: a quarter significantly less.
The shift to agency pricing (in some cases, publishers have priced their ebooks higher
than the price Amazon charges for the
print versions); the rise in sales of indie - authored,
low - priced ebooks; device fatigue and a slow renewals cycle; a lack of good competition to Amazon; adoption rates decreasing; reading time diminishing; and output reaching saturation point.
The shift to agency pricing (in some cases, publishers have priced their e-books higher
than the price Amazon charges for the
print versions); the rise in sales of indie - authored,
low - priced e-books; device fatigue and a slow renewals cycle; a lack of good competition to Amazon; adoption rates decreasing; reading time diminishing; and output reaching saturation point.
If you have a
print version of this title, enroll your title and select a Promotional List Price that is
lower than your Kindle List Price by at least 50 %.
The ranking from an environmental point of view was in general that tablet e-paper and the web based newspaper with a shorter reading time (10 min), was giving rise to a
lower environmental impact
than the
printed version.