Fastcase further noted that they will introduce a series
of paid eBooks later in the year highlighting particular subject areas.
(Though it's currently ranked # 7,707 on Amazon's list
of paid ebooks — and # 12 on Amazon's list of journalist biographies, behind the autobiography of Barbara Walters.)
Also, KU Titles make up 32 % of all daily unit downloads
of paid ebooks on Amazon.
You can check out the full list HERE to see the top 100 hundred list
of paid ebooks under the new pricing program.
It's safe to conclude that at least a third
of all paid ebook unit sales in the U.S. are Indie self - published ebooks.
For daily unit sales, the survey shows that at least a third
of all paid ebook unit sales on Amazon.com are indie self - published ebooks but the real number is almost certainly several percent higher.
Not exact matches
Now BookFunnel delivers half a million
ebook downloads each month on behalf
of 3,000 indie authors, who
pay $ 20 to $ 100 a year for the service.
Writing an
ebook with valuable enough information that you can charge $ 48 for it and have people happy to
pay it, is a higher level
of knowledge and creativity which can be difficult to attain.
But the main thing is that the price for an
ebook wouldn't be significantly less, since almost all
of the price is due to the extortionate copyright fees the publisher had to
pay to the journals for permission to reprint.
This month, it was the turn
of ebooks: six science fiction and fantasy titles available at the purchaser - defined price, with those
paying above average unlocking seven more, including Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean's acclaimed Signal to Noise.
My main business is B2C coaching and consulting and during this challenge I am trying to build up the Information Product side
of my business which will include a
paid online course based on my latest
ebook cum mini-course.
Once you've installed Stanza, you can access a lot
of free and
paid ebooks via its Online Catalog.)
Mobile devices let users make calls and send text messages, browse the web, read
ebooks, view video and listen to audio, and to use any
of over 1 million free and
paid apps.
Other major publishers may be content to reap record profits off the growth
of ebook sales while
paying authors practically nothing for digital books with far lower production and distribution costs, but we wouldn't feel right doing that.
Of course, this is hardly a rule, and there are plenty of voracious readers who do read free books by the hundreds, which then becomes a problem in and of itself, because why should someone pay for an eBook if they can get so many others for fre
Of course, this is hardly a rule, and there are plenty
of voracious readers who do read free books by the hundreds, which then becomes a problem in and of itself, because why should someone pay for an eBook if they can get so many others for fre
of voracious readers who do read free books by the hundreds, which then becomes a problem in and
of itself, because why should someone pay for an eBook if they can get so many others for fre
of itself, because why should someone
pay for an
eBook if they can get so many others for free?
I am an early adopter
of ebooks (probably because I don't have any more bookshelf space and am tired
of paying for storage!).
My post was about the high prices libraries
pay for
ebooks from the «Big 6» publishers and the difficulties libraries have getting books from most
of those publishers.
Pay per use is the ultimate way
of ebook pricing based on the reading experience.
I was thinking about the potential
of ebooks, and how to make books more interactive, the different types
of books you could produce, but then the idea that you could
pay as you read — well, that was far more interesting than everything else.
Then, if you want to remove the watermarks (you don't have to, per se) you can
pay a nominal fee and unlock the
ebook version
of your manuscript in all the relevant
ebook formats.
Barnes & Noble will
pay or cause to be
paid your Royalties on sales
of your
eBook approximately sixty (60) days following the end
of the calendar month during which it is sold.
Ebook Karma
pays authors 50 percent
of all sales.
Please see our
ebook promotion section, which has a variety
of paid options.
We don't have to worry about them taking that brand elsewhere because we're
paying 50 % net on
ebook sales and offering limited terms
of contract.
Library Directwill allow libraries to bundle books in Smashwords» catalog and select the books based on sales ranking; partnered with the new Pricing Manager which allows authors and publishers to set the prices that libraries will
pay, even opting to make their titles free to libraries, the amount
of ebook titles that libraries can offer to patrons will increase.
Also, the
ebooks on offer will comprise
of both free and
paid titles.
The funds were appropriated by the General Assembly in response to a report by the Department
of Consumer Protection which recommended, in light
of the high cost libraries
pay for
eBooks, that the state develop its own
eBook Platform.
Hugh's advice for publishers is to eliminate things that annoy him (non-compete clauses, length -
of - copyright licenses, New York City offices) and to lower prices, give away
ebooks with hardcover purchases, and
pay authors monthly.
«KindleUnlimited indie page reads (at a current run rate
of $ 180M + / yr) are now
paying Amazon - exclusive indie authors far more total dollars than «wide» indie authors are earning from their sales at all non-Amazon
ebook retailers combined (a total run rate
of roughly $ 50M / yr in non-Amazon indie author earnings).»
Interestingly, 3 percent
of the respondents have stated they wish to
pay for their
ebooks, though don't know how to go about doing it.
Either we take example
of France and Canada, who have recognised industry data on
ebooks / books as a matter
of public interest, and therefore subsidise them, or we completely change the business model, and actually have the people who benefit from the data
pay for it.
You can provide the loser with an
ebook in any format you wish, from free to
paid, but remembering that simply using his email address to «gift» him the
ebook from Amazon will cost you less than the price
of your print book and will increase your
ebook ranking.
According to research by Dutch firm GfK, only 10 %
of all
eBooks on devices were actually
paid for, with most
of the digital books being pirated.
Recent models to the way books and
ebooks are conceived
of and sold have offered some truly unique forms
of paying for content.
Unfortunately, the switch to digital also carries with it a built - in flaw, which is that subscribers expect to read digital at a lower price — hence a lot
of the argument between booksellers and publishers over
ebook pricing — and advertisers expect to
pay less for digital ad space.
This details matters because in July
of last year Amazon started
paying authors and publishers with
ebooks in Kindle Unlimited by the number
of pages read, rather than the number
of times an
ebook is borrowed.
A number
of authors have criticized the concept
of free book giveaways or listing
ebooks at substantially lower prices, based on the belief that this will translate into not only higher rates
of piracy, but also lost sales from readers who would have otherwise
paid full price.
Authors typically are
paid a percentage (which can be up to 40 %)
of the sale from their
ebook or agree to a flat fee from the publisher which will remain fixed regardless
of the number
of books sold.
Needless to say, the move is already
paying off with the uptake
of ebooks having grown exponentially in 2012 compared to what it was just a year ago.
Quote ««KindleUnlimited indie page reads (at a current run rate
of $ 180M + / yr) are now
paying Amazon - exclusive indie authors far more total dollars than «wide» indie authors are earning from their sales at all non-Amazon
ebook retailers combined (a total run rate
of roughly $ 50M / yr in non-Amazon indie author earnings).
News was announced yesterday from the lawyers for the plaintiffs in one
of Apple's side lawsuits over
ebook pricing that the grand total the company could have to
pay out to consumers is $ 400 million.
One
of the end results
of these meetings is an agreement from Random House that it would support
ebook lending
of its catalog
of titles, but that the price that libraries must
pay for those books would have to increase.
There was a great Salon piece that faulted publishers refusing to
pay authors a decent
ebook royalty as the cause
of this problem.
No author in his right mind would advocate stealing
ebook titles except one who is already established and wealthy and could clearly care less about his work being stolen at this stage in his career... and no clear - thinking person could believe that the field has been leveled for creators
of short fiction versus longer fiction
ebooks by the «
pay per page» standard when you include short illustrated works.
As XinXii is an European based company, we have to warrant two aspects: - we have to
pay the German VAT to the tax office for each
eBook sold (19 %)- the VAT must be always included in the final price
of all products listed on XinXii So after a sale, we have to transfer the VAT to the tax office, and the author will get his percentage
of the net price as provision / royalty.
But all this is assuming (A)
ebook growth will continue to a saturation point — it could be this is all new and shiny and the early adopters are hoarding a lifetime's supply
of books (B) as Joe pointed out, NY will hang onto artificially inflated prices for
ebooks for too long and give lesser - known authors their one current competitive advantage
of price and (C) people will still be willing to
pay for
ebooks, or any content, in five years.
Before the arrival
of the «agency pricing» model that Apple negotiated with
ebook publishers — which allowed the publishers to decide what price Apple would charge for their books on the iPad — Amazon had deals that
paid a specific wholesale price to publishers for a certain number
of copies, and then it was able to charge whatever it wanted for the books in the Kindle store.
And since every new book needs reviews, and a Goodreads Giveaway is free, it
pays to make early and regular use
of this important promotional tool (btw, this is for print books only, no
eBooks allowed).
But, I thought, if I could sell some early copies
of EE5, maybe I could come up with a couple hundred dollars to
pay for turning the short story into an
ebook.
Here is a comparison chart
of royalties
paid to self - published authors by the major
ebook stores.