Sentences with phrase «n't author discounts»

Yeah, I hate the fact there aren't author discounts but the fact I didn't have to price the books as high using the beta POD as I did on Createspace was a plus in that column.

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Self - published authors will receive guidance on whether or not to enroll in KDP Select and how to use pricing / discounting as a strategic tool.
A way that doesn't require you to make a huge upfront investment on inventory, but allows you to take advantage of your author discount in addition to the Lulu discount?
From what I understand the vast majority of the ebooks that are discounted are from indie authors and not major publishers.
If you, the indie author, go in there and convince them to try to order your book and they can only get a 20 % discount, then chances are that store doesn't order much from that distributor.
An author's cost to purchase his or her own book from the self - publishing company should be a fixed price based upon format and page count, not a discount from the retail price of the book.
I went to an author talk by a trad pubbed author and she had to buy a copy of her own book at the bookstore because her contract doesn't allow her to buy copies of her own book at a discount from the publisher.
And since readers don't buy for publisher, but for author, any indie book was suddenly sitting beside any traditional book in the big discount catalogs.
We are able to offer this deep discount (it's deep for us), not because we artificially inflate all our prices to accommodate a huge discount, and not because we undercut the value of the discounted packages, but because we are confident that the majority of authors who publish with Outskirts Press once will choose to publish with us again and tell many of their friends about their great experience.
The author can order books at a discounted rate, but it is not required.
There were no print proofs offered and, the big kicker as far as most of us were concerned, authors could not order at a discount.
Unfortunately, Sony is not offering discounts on any of the books that are featured in the Book of Month, nor are they getting authors to participate in the events.
This type of program, even if no longer offered for free but rather at a significant discount, stands to not only be a tremendous PR move for the company, but can also fill up some of the empty seats on various routes, especially if authors are able to be as flexible in their travel dates as they are in their writing schedules.
But, over time, we realize that there are a multitude of beginning authors who don't know where to go to get trusted services, so we have a person on the KWL team, Hufsa, dedicated to working with potential partners to secure a discount for KWL authors on services and so we can direct them to people who are going to provide quality service and trusted service.»
Amazon would like to discount those prices heavily — which, by the way, doesn't change the money that the author sees by a dime.
Additionally, this wholesale bookstore allows our authors the opportunity to offer their books at the full, trade - discounted prices to niche markets, smaller retailers, or specialty stores that might not otherwise have an account with Ingram or Baker & Taylor.
For starters, the price of the eBook is always the retail price — authors don't need to discount.
Outskirts Press is one of the only (if not the only) self - publishing service company that offers its books at wholesale discounts to anybody (not just its own authors).
When publishing POD books, many authors find that they can not afford to offer the full discount required to get the books into bookstores.
DO N'T Forget to sign up for the AU Member BBQ August 3rd Book Awards... to get special Author U discount through July — here's $ 20 USA Book News Awards — you must enter this month for Awards announced in November.
There also isn't a discounted author rate for buying the book.
These purchases do not include author event discount purchases.
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If you place an order for copies of your book through an e-mail to Archway Publishing and receive your author discount, then no, you will not receive a royalty payment for that order.
I am not an Agency publisher but I do not believe that publishers follow the same discount terms as KDP authors.
Steve: «On printed books the author gets paid based on the list price of the book; not the discounted price that a retailer might be selling it for.
The comment about not knowing the publisher's terms on Agency is correct and I do not believe that publishers follow the same discount rules as KDP authors.
And if you are not charging your authors deep discounts for Amazon sales, great.
On printed books the author gets paid based on the list price of the book; not the discounted price that a retailer might be selling it for.
Most authors know by now that Amazon traditionally discounted all e-book prices, having stated they believed that their cost shouldn't exceed $ 9.99.
But knowing about this discount may give you confidence to send customers to your author webpage instead of to Amazon or Barnes & Noble's website (where your customers may or may not receive a discount at all).
Too many authors either do not understand the process of editing, or they discount its value.
Kobo has been a godsend with promotion deals for authors who publish through KWL where THEY discount the book via a coupon code and you don't have to mess with changing it elsewhere.
If you don't have series, you can run discount promotions on ONE book in an effort to introduce readers to you as an author.
Enforcing a standard discount of 55 % upon creating an IngramSpark account, will turn away those authors and publishers intending to short discount, smaller authors that don't approach publishing like a real business.
If the only price I can get the new ebook from X author at is $ 14.99 and that's the book I want, I'm going to be deciding between the best discounted HB price vs the eBook price and not choosing between publisher X's books at $ 14.99 vs publisher Y's books at $ 12.99.
Nate Hoffelder presents Indie Authors Are Getting Clobbered by Big Name eBook Discounts — But Not For The Reason You Think posted at The Digital Reader, saying, «If you've been following ebook news over the past 6 months then you've noticed that ebook prices have tended to drop.
We urge authors to discount everywhere their book is listed, but sometimes they don't or can't (like on Kindle Countdown deals that are only available in the US and the UK).
I believe that an organization like this could be of great benefit to self - publishers, if it brings self - published authors together to accomplish as a group what we can't accomplish on our own: group discounts, selling our books in venues that normally don't accept a one - author publisher or require 50 + titles in the publisher's catalogue, having a presence at fairs and conferences, etc..
New Releases — We will accept new releases — they don't have to be discounted, but must be priced as stated above — if not live yet, please enter link to amazon author page or place where we can see previous works and then follow up through our contact form with information about your release.
Note: When applied to purchases, Lulu discounts do not affect author revenue.
And (2) the famous 70 - percent royalty an author is paid in this setting by Amazon seems to be figured on the actual price of the sale (in this case, 99 cents) rather than the author's list price ($ 2.99), despite the fact that the author didn't know about the discount that doesn't seem to have been in response to any competitive price pressures.
But the response confirmed that Amazon doesn't offer a paperback proof, or discounted author copies.
Although it is easier and cheaper to release books only in e-format, there will still be a place for print so, as an author, don't discount the possibility.
Now there is a tool for this, they can earn 70 % instead of 35 % royalties during their promotions, and all customers will see the discount at Amazon, even if they hadn't heard about the author's promotion.
I was wondering what your thoughts are about Amazon doing discount pricing on their own, and not really letting the author / publisher know they are doing it.
Usually the discounts come out of their cut, not the author's.
In retail, we can't forget that what is happening with retailers, and Amazon particularly - the drive to give a bigger share to Amazon will impact on authors because of [Amazon's high] discounts.
Streitfeld says Amazon is in a «secret campaign to discourage customers from buying books by Hachette,» by cutting discounts on some of the publisher's titles, increasing delivery times, as well as «suggesting that readers might enjoy instead a book from another author» (we're not sure what that means; Amazon routinely lists titles that «customers who bought this also bought»).
Additionally, self - published authors generally don't print huge runs of books, so they can not provide bookstores with the same discounts that large publishers can.
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