Sentences with phrase «of ebooks sold at»

However, as Mark Coker argues, compared to many indie authors who can get $ 1.80 - $ 2.10 out of each copy of their ebooks sold at the price of $ 2.99, those authors who publish through the traditional publishers are «at an extreme disadvantage» because they earn only $ 1.25 - $ 1.75 out of each copy of their ebooks sold at the price of $ 9.99.

When we look at the total number of EBooks sold at Apples bookstore it seems to be grossly inflate.

-- Between 14 % and 25 % of all ebooks sold at Apple, Nook, and Kobo store lack Bowker - issued International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs).

Not exact matches

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With the advent of ebooks, though, Amazon began selling titles for $ 9.99 at a loss.

«When I see an ebook that sells for twice the price of the paperback version, either someone has lost their mind, is asleep at the wheel, or is deliberately steering the ship towards an iceberg,» she said.

Before the agency model, Amazon was buying new ebook releases at the wholesale price of the hardcovers, then turning around and selling them for retail at dollars less.

In the latest sign of this disruption, author John Locke — who earlier this year became the first self - published author to sell a million ebooks — has signed an innovative deal with publisher Simon & Schuster that shows at least some players in the industry are thinking about how to adapt to the shifting balance of power.

The U.S. Department of Justice alleges that Apple, as it prepared to launch its own ebook store, persuaded publishers to price ebooks at $ 13 and $ 15, or about $ 3 more than the same books being sold through Amazon and other outlets.

Amazon sell approximately one million kindle eReaders per month and have approximately 80 % of the eBook sales worldwide at time of writing.

Selling many copies of your work over the years can be challenging, but if you sell your eBook online on your own site you may be pleasantly surprised at your results.

eBay.com: eBay is more than a bidding store — you can sell unlimited numbers of eBooks at a set price on eBay.com or set up your own store.

Similarly, the hardcover version of the book, The Chronicles of Downton Abbey which is sold along with the TV series also enjoys about # 3 price benefit for the hardcover version which is sold at # 12.99 as an ebook.

The author has to do all this themselves at their own expense, and in return Amazon will shaft them with a 35 % royalty rate (the 50 % you quote is NET, which is rich given the only place it will be sold is on Amazon, so Amazon will take their 30 % cut and then take another half of what's left) for an ebook.

But what if it turned out that you could make more money each month by selling the ebook at 99 cents instead of the $ 6.99 or whatever you thought it was worth?

At the beginning of the publishing - process, we'll ask you if you want to sell your eBook on your XinXii - authorpage only, or if you want us to distribute your eBook on the major eBook retailers as well - and if yes, on which one (s).

The two biggest and most well known booksellers in the UK are so inept at selling ebooks that they must surely be helping to hasten the demise of ePub and the supremacy of Amazon and the Kindle ecosystem.

No, the book can not be clawed back, much in the same way that once a library purchases a print book, the publisher can't take it back, of if you sell an ebook at an ebook retailer, you can't take the book from customers who purchased it even if you later remove the book from the retailer.

It's probably also not coincidental that the 3 genres they chose are top sellers on Kindle (YA is not one of the top - selling ebook genres, at least at the moment).

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow auEbooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow auebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

And as I've said now at least four times... regardless of this copyright law, when we are out of stock per the term of our contract, we have to revert the rights when requested... no ifs ands or buts... unless we are still selling an agreed upon threshold of ebooks.

Amazon is talking about ebook sales going to authors while print book sales would go to Hatchette and if Hatchette had agreed to this - showing they cared about their authors - Amazon would go back to large restocking / reorders on print books, discounting print books instead of selling them at the absurd high prices set by Hatchette which they've been complaining about, and re-enabling pre-order buttons.

You will lose at least one reader by ceasing to sell on Amazon.com, but I suppose you will gain the satisfaction of maintaining the ebook pricing structure you would like.

You will note at the end of this post I caution that Amazon might not always be the greenest pasture... but for now it is the best place to sell ebooks.

However, John Gilstrap's Kensington title «High Treason» costs $ 8.97 in PB at Amazon and $ 7.39 for the Kindle edition, despite the fact that there's no foiling or embossing on the ebook version, and once I've read the Kindle copy, I can't give it to my dad, donate it to the Friends of the Library book sale or the local senior center, sell it to my favorite used book store, etc..

As the world's largest distributor of indie ebooks, Smashwords lets you bypass having to deal with multiple author platforms by letting you upload your book and immediately start selling at more than 20 ebook retailers.

Analysts in 2007 (if memory does not betray me) said that to be profitable Amazon had to sell an ebook at not less than $ 1.63 and Jeff Bezos announced only in 2012 that the volumes sales of ebooks finally turned the business into a profitable one.

I mean seriously, if Joe Konrath can make more selling his ebooks at $ 2.99 than he would get in royalties off a $ 24 HARDBACK, there's something seriously wrong with the money side of things in traditional publishing.

There are so many schools of thought on this topic, and essentially with little overhead, pricing an eBook at 99 cents and selling exponentially more than at $ 2.99 does have its benefits.

Ebooks sold through Gardners will earn authors 60 percent of the list price after VAT — the same rate Smashwords authors earn on books sold at iBooks and other major retailers.

I just remember Joe Konrath putting a list of people on his blog earlier this year (or maybe last year) who had sold at least 1,000 ebooks.

It's tough selling a book of poetry anyway but I'm coming across authors too many to count who are selling thousands of their ebooks at Amazon through the Kindle program.

If Amazon / ebook retailers are your primary sales platform (and they are, unless you are a professional speaker or planning to sell thousands of copies at events) you need to design for Amazon.

At its simplest, if you're selling your ebook, you must be doing so because you have the nerve — the wonderful, absolutely awesome, flipping - the - bird - at - the - odds nerve — that your work is worthy of a stranger's time and moneAt its simplest, if you're selling your ebook, you must be doing so because you have the nerve — the wonderful, absolutely awesome, flipping - the - bird - at - the - odds nerve — that your work is worthy of a stranger's time and moneat - the - odds nerve — that your work is worthy of a stranger's time and money.

In an interview with J - Source's Eric Mark Do, executives from paper said that they have typically only sold between 100 to 300 copies of each ebook they've published, priced at $ 4.99 apiece.

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While Amazon originally worked under the wholesale model, which afforded the retailer the opportunity to sell ebooks at less than their cost in order to push sales of their Kindle e-readers, the alleged collusion between Apple and five of the Big Six publishers actually refers to their switch to an agency pricing model, which allowed publishers to set the price of the ebooks for the retailers.

As Barnes & Noble was the major sponsor of the event, they had the exclusive right to sell books and ebooks at the event, meaning that Autography and other writers or publishers were unable to sell ebooks on site.

The CEO of Kobo, Michael Tamblyn, spoke at the The Economist's Canada Summit and proclaimed that 1 in 5 books sold in Canada is an eBook, in some categories it's 1 in 3 or higher and Kobo is the largest retailer of digital books in Canada and one of the largest in the world and the second - largest manufacturer of e-Reading devices globally.

At this year's BookExpo America, Barnes and Noble's Theresa Horner, VP of Digital Content, detailed how the leading brick - and - mortar book selling chain has incorporated ebooks into its in - store model.

If you look at the recent decline in eBook sales, this is partly attributed to the abolishment of the Agency price model of selling books.

Back in April Simon & Schuster announced that it will donate a free electronic copy of Academy Award — winning producer Brian Grazer's new book, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life, to school and public libraries for every ebook or hardcover book sold at retail, up to 5,000 copies.

Shortly after the launch of the iPad, TorrentFreak took a look at a small group of popular business titles and calculated that unauthorized eBook downloads on BitTorrent grew by 78 % on average — and that was when Apple had sold only about 300,000 iPads.

Smashwords, who sells author content as well as distributes that content to major retailers of authors» choice, gives authors the option to sell their ebooks through Smashwords at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Apple, Flipkart, and a few other retailers, as well as to distribute their work for lending to OverDrive, Oyster, and Scribd.

Though the hardcover edition of Get What's Yours is currently sold out on Amazon, it's still in stock at some other vendors; eBook and audio versions are also available.

Ebooks market share seems to be stabilizing at around one third of total books sold in the U.S. according to the latest reports.

It should come as very little surprise to you that after jacking up the prices of their ebooks at the start of 2015, the Big 5 sold fewer ebooks.

I'm Julia Laflin, writer and author of The House At Roc Noir, an atmospheric novella set in the lonely wilds of Corsica, which has recently been selling very nicely as a self - published ebook.

Our highly scientific method looks at three separate book lists that you're likely to be choosing your next read from: The New York Times Best Sellers in eBook Fiction; the New York Times Best Sellers In eBook Nonfiction; and USA Today's 100 Best - Selling Books of 2011.