Sentences with phrase «of ebook pricing»

This way of ebook pricing at libraries gives you a lot of flexibility.

Pay per use is the ultimate way of ebook pricing based on the reading experience.

This morning's panel discussion on the importance of ebook pricing was polite but heated as the different panelists disagreed on the inherent built - in factors that affect ebooks and their price points.

If publishers are able to resist the margin pressure in the face of this price war, they should end up doing well out of the ebook price war.

This flexibility of ebook pricing let libraries choose the best way of buying your books.

As an independently published author, I make 70 % of the price of an ebook priced $ 2.99 and up.

This post is not about the economics of ebook pricing.

She's very aware of ebook pricing and the price wars of the past year.

Finding the perfect price for your ebook is not easy, and you can completely get lost looking through all the different kinds of ebook pricing models.

The article hastened to point out that the Big Six and Apple are being investigated on two continents for reports of ebook price fixing in an effort to oust bookselling giant Amazon, a purported arrangement that, if true, backfired in a monumental way.

My best post on the topic of eBook pricing actually quotes legitimate sources, and doesn't depend on my hyptheses: Yet one more mystery about the enigmatic book publishing industry.»

Amazon Refunds on the Way... Maybe With the issue of ebook pricing collusion now mostly resolved by the Department of Justice, Amazon has announced it may be giving customers refunds.

Back before the major publishers plotted to take control of ebook prices in 2010, those same systems helped stimulate massive demand, sparking a multi-billion dollar market that more than made up for shrinking print book sales.

January's $ 1.38 borrow rate represents a huge 294 % improvement on the $ 0.35 that would be paid on a sale of an ebook priced at $ 0.99, while a book priced at $ 1.99 would have got 97 % more revenue for a borrow than for a sale.

A recent blog post on Joe Wikert's Publishing 2020 Blog addressed the issue of ebook pricing from the value point of view, providing a new perspective on the relationship between a Kindle ebook's length, price, and value.

The Government is basically forcing Kobo to abandon the agency model of eBook pricing.

In 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) accused Apple and five publishers of ebook price fixing, and since then, 33 states have sued Apple on behalf of their consumers.

I also don't know if you've been following my point about a single source controlling pricing now (Amazon) vs six publishers and two major retailers interacting (the big six plus Apple and Amazon), but I can't help believing that leaving the entire process of ebook pricing and market setting in the hands of single source is less desirable than allowing all the market players to interact.

So Apple and a group of major publishers stand accused of ebook price fixing.

Anything but fearless, they didn't dare challenge Amazon's pricing alone by pulling their books from the Kindle Store unless Amazon stopped its deep discounting of ebook prices.

All are said to be suspected of ebook price collusion.

Apart from the publicly available data about the lower end of eBook price points capturing reader's attention, the latest data analysis from the German website, die Self - Publisher - Bibel, suggests that between $ 0 and $ 2 is not necessarily the sweetest spot in terms of revenue in several markets that readers chase after.

In related news, I've seen a few sales start up for the ebook this month, following my experimental lowering of the ebook price down to $ 4.99.

In April of 2010, the so - called «agency model» of ebook pricing came into effect and caused a furor in the publishing industry.

Possibly the most welcome prediction in Umstattd's report is from author Jim Rubart, and if it comes to pass it could be the very thing that turns the tide of ebook pricing and attitudes towards indie publishing.

If Amazon manages to strongarm the publisher, it will create a domino effect of changing the established status quo of eBook pricing and fully abolish the agency model for good.

Now there are authors who are pushing back against the continual decline of ebook prices but that ship has sailed.

As an author, I always feel like a traitor, lol, when the topic of ebook pricing arises.

A whole new world of ebook pricing arbitrage awaits publishers with net pricing.

First of all their ebook prices are higher than Amazons.

While Apple is appealing the September 6th ruling of Judge Denise Cote, which outlined the types of agreements Apple can enter into now as a result of the ebook price fixing allegations and subsequent ruling, the tech giant had no comment on the appointment of Bromwich to oversee their business deals.

At the Digital Book World conference in New York City, two industry leaders sat down and discussed the semantics of ebook pricing, and how it is currently affecting the industry and looking into the inner workings.

Statement by Joaquin Almunia, vice president of European Commission responsible for competition policy, on settlement of eBook price - fixing lawsuit with Apple, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.

A previous version of this story stated that KDP authors get a 30 percent cut on sales of ebooks priced below $ 2.99 or above $ 9.99.

Right now, [company] Amazon [/ company] KDP gives authors 70 percent of each sale of ebooks priced between $ 2.99 and $ 9.99.

By Stephen Windwalker Originally posted March 2, 2010 — © Kindle Nation Daily 2010 Chris B, a reader from the Dallas area, got right to the heart of one of the challenges of thinking about the effects of the ebook pricing controversy on authors in this comment left yesterday on my post The Math of -LSB-...]

The iPad: a magical tablet of awesome, the fastest - selling gizmo of all time, destroyer of eBook pricing models, bulldozer of netbooks.

Apple's long and stubborn efforts to avoid the sting of ebook price - fixing probe and an accompanying $ 450m fine have finally ended: the US Supreme Court has decided not to hear the iTunes giant's appeal.

The result was a normalisation of ebook prices at a higher level than before.

Apple goes on trial today as the last man standing against charges of ebook price fixing brought by the US government.

Interview (Starts at 23:38)-- Russ Grandinetti, Amazon's VP of Kindle Content, met with me at BEA for a wide - ranging discussion of eBook pricing, Digital Rights Management, Kindle Singles, social reading, and how much longer there will be a Kindle Keyboard in the lineup.

While it will be fascinating both to me and, perhaps, to the U.S. Department of Justice to study the array of ebook prices in the Kindle Store and in other venues like Apple's yet - to - be-opened iBooks store on April Fool's Day, it may be more telling to see where they settle out on May Day, Independence Day, or Thanksgiving Day.

Alongside a realistic analysis of ebook pricing and a rather aggressive plea to bombard the CEO of Hachette with threatening emails, the letter noted that «Just ahead of World War II, there was a radical invention that shook the foundations of book publishing».

Perhaps it's easy for me to say, being out of the ebook pricing wars now (i.e., safely retired), but much of the publisher angst over ebook pricing terms to libraries strikes me as responding to problems that haven't yet materialized, and in fact may not.