Not exact matches
But in general, I believe the quality of ebooks is much
lower than that of printed books; from both
traditional and self
publishers.
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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.
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.
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.
She's got some damned good stuff in there, including about the
Traditional Publishers showing higher
than expect profits because of
lower costs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
They can price their books
lower than many
traditional publishers would allow, which may actually improve both sales and royalties, and also allows them to reach a wider audience.
New,
lower pricing models driven largely by startups — Even if your competitor's content isn't free it's still often much
lower - priced
than traditional publishers are comfortable with.
You can't go
lower than 99 cents, and if you price it
lower than $ 2.99 — 65 % of the sale price goes to Amazon — which is still a lot better
than you got from your
traditional publisher.
If you're an indie writer, you get to sell books at a price way, way
lower than what a
Traditional Publisher can sell at.
The higher prices mean
traditional publishers, which agree individual deals with Amazon, will be netting considerably more for German business on a per - sale basis
than they do in the US and UK, although at much
lower volume.
Indeed, for all of the praise I just heaped on AMP with regards to monetization, AMP CPMs are still significantly
lower than traditional mobile web pages;
publishers, though, are eager to support the format because a rush of traffic from Google more
than makes up for it.