Publishers would have to pay an extra fee for the additional usage, and right
now ebook profits are pretty slim to begin with.
Not exact matches
Since I'm getting close to holding a book in my hand, I'm
now strategizing how to make the highest
profit selling «Watching Their Dance» as an
ebook.
Geez, I went with Kobo to try to avoid giving money to Amazon and Barnes and Noble (I have some author friends who think Amazon / B & N have poor business practice, as they undercut the publishers when selling
ebooks which affects the publishers» / authors»
profits on the books that THEY produced), but
now I'm wishing I just caved and bought a darn Kindle like everybody else did.
I know publisher sales and
profits aren't the same thing, so I wonder how their
profits have changed with them
now being able to set their own
ebook prices.
Now what would possibly work is selling people the physical book AND including rights to download the
ebook as well, contrary to what I am sure the publisher would tell you, Every download wouldnt be a lost sale or lost
profit, because how many people are logically going to buy the hard cover and
ebook as well?
Now the question I'd love to see you address in an article is whether self - published literary and historical fiction authors are doing better with
ebook profits than those who are traditionally published.
Among the accusations the DoJ will
now bring up in court is that Penguin was actually very instrumental in arranging the «agency model» with Apple in an attempt to force the price of
ebooks higher than they were currently being sold for, namely, that Amazon was purchasing the
ebooks at the original wholesale price and selling them for a marginal
profit — or in some cases, an actual loss, which it is allowed to do as long as it can afford to — in order to sell Kindle e-reader devices.
After all, why would give up 70 % of the takings for less than 25 % of the takings - I'll refer you to Amy Shojai's blog post about legacy
Ebook publishing for the numbers: http://amyshojai.com/2011/05/17/tuesday-tips-kindle-ization-2-brass-ring-or-lead-balloon/
Now if someone comes along, and can help me increase my sales by x % at y % cost, so that I increase my
profits by z % as Joe put it, I'd be crazy not do go with them.
And even if they did manage to pull it off, they'd keep
eBook prices high to shore up their paper
profits — which is of course what they're doing
now.
Now you can sell
eBooks the way that makes you happy, without having to give up on your
profits.
Write a Sci - Fi Story & Get Paid for It ~ Self Publish Booklets and Sell Them for Big
Profits The Future of Books ~ Make Money
Now With Great
eBooks!
The rules and opportunities are different with
ebooks, and, indeed, we are
now seeing for -
profit companies providing
ebook lending services.
From their point of viw, they have no reason to disrupt themselves right
now when they're making even bigger
profits from
ebooks than from real books, by selling them at the same price.