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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.
At the peak
of the nastiness over the summer, when Amazon was slowing shipments
of some Hachette books and removing presale buttons on others, and after Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert eviscerated the
retail giant in a popular segment on his show, Amazon made the very rare move
of going public with what it wanted from Hachette — namely, $ 9.99
pricing on most
ebooks.
By researching individual, local
ebook retailers, I collected a list
of most popular genres for each country and was trying to find the median
price range (the most popular
pricing).
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Book royalties are a percentage
of the
ebook's
retail price, and that percentage changes depending on the online
retailer and the list
price.
Learn how to calculate your
ebook royalties, plus how the online
retailers» percentage and list
price affect your cut
of book sales.
On top
of this Amazon apparently demands a higher discount from
retail prices on
eBooks than it does on printed books.
All
of the books above available as
ebooks at very low
prices, and all but Out
of the Shadows are also out in paperback too, from all good
retailers, online and on the high street.
Five
of the biggest publishers were so worried about the impact
of ebooks on their hardcover sales that they risked an antitrust lawsuit in an effort to control the
retail price of ebook bestsellers by linking their
prices to the
price of hardbacks.
I'm going to be targeting $ 5.99 as the
retail price for versions
of the
ebook.
Publishers are generally setting the
retail prices for the
eBooks at the same level (or sometmes roughly 10 % lower) than the print version
of the same book.
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.
If Publisher does not:
eBook price: $ 10.00 $ 7.00 received by publisher (after 30 % sales commission to
retailer) 25 %
of net royalty Royalty to author: $ 1.75 per title sold Yep, definitely worth the time to find out exactly how this term is going to be defined in the contract when it comes to electronic books.
Once you publish your
eBook, you'll continue to earn 90 %
of the Suggested
Retail price through January 31, 2012.
On
ebooks, industry standard is 25 %
of NET — the
price HarperCollins gets paid by the
retailer, typically about half the cover
price.
RH's Madeline McIntosh actually spoke out against the idea
of publishers» setting
of retail eBook prices, so maybe there's hope that the biggest
of the Big Six publishers will break ranks with the Apple Five.
If you choose to make your
eBook available for distribution, you will receive 90 %
of the Suggested
Retail Price after the
retailer's commission.
crunched the numbers on
ebook pricing in June
of 2009 in this article and determined that
ebooks could, as a stand - alone business, be
priced far below Amazon's current $ 9.99
pricing (they mentioned the amount $ 4) and still provide the same revenue per / book to author and publisher and
retailer as they have on paper books.
All new
eBooks with an ISBN published after September 6, 2011 will earn 90 %
of the Suggested
Retail Price, after
retailer's commission, if any.
As I have been saying here over and over and over, most electronic books sold through most major
ebook retail outlets are sold by traditional publishers in the
price range
of $ 7.99 to $ 15.99.
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.
Rooted in one
of the world's great publishing houses, the Faber Factory team have developed innovative ways to make sure
ebooks get out to multiple
retailers in multiple formats around the world, to monitor availability, sales and
pricing in real time, and to promote
ebooks to readers,» the press release stated.
While Vellum's
price tag is supposed to let authors make one version
of their
ebooks that look streamlined and professional then upload it to all
retail platforms, the
price of the service is fairly close to what some formatters would charge to produce the different file versions
of the books, and all the author has to do there is email the original document
of the book without going through the laborious process
of formatting it within the app.
If you upload your print and / or
ebook to the various
retail channels through their distribution process, they will take a portion
of each sale: «Dependent upon wholesale discount, IngramSpark publishers receive 45 — 70 %
of their list
price on print titles sold through the distribution channel, minus manufacturing costs (some markets may vary).
At $ 10 — $ 15 per month I think plenty
of avid
ebook readers would be willing to sign up, because they're probably already buying at least one
ebook at
retail prices each month.
The author does not have a say in any
retail pricing, hard copy or
ebook, that I am aware
of.
Accusations
of bullying and the exercise
of market power are flying against both parties: Amazon has market power as a leading book
retailer, and they are bullying Macmillan by removing their print products to keep
retail ebook prices low and sell more Kindles!
For starters, the
price of the
eBook is always the
retail price — authors don't need to discount.
Agency
pricing, for those who have not been following the most important development in the growth
of the book market, enabled the publishers to enforce a uniform
price for each
ebook title across all
retail outlets
The only catch is
pricing — while Lulu lets you set your own
price, most
of the
eBook retailers enforce some
pricing restrictions (i.e. a set maximum
price) which Lulu must adhere to.
To help answer this most important
of questions, we have redesigned the Sell page to provide an at - a-glance summary
of Lulu's distribution options, services, tools, and
retail pricing examples for both print and
eBooks in distribution.
To summarize the information above:
Ebook retailers pay you around 65 to 70 percent of the retail price (that you set) if your ebook retails between $ 2.99 and $
Ebook retailers pay you around 65 to 70 percent
of the
retail price (that you set) if your
ebook retails between $ 2.99 and $
ebook retails between $ 2.99 and $ 9.99.
But, according to this article in the Wall Street Journal, there are book publishers who are pushing back on the notion
of releasing an
eBook version
of a new book for a
price any less than the
retail price of the same book's hardback version.
Even though the
retail prices of ebooks are usually lower than print, the actual dollar value
of ebook royalties may, surprisingly, be higher!
Currently, common book or
ebook prices in an online
retail space (such as Amazon) might be in the range
of $ 0.99 to $ 25 dollars.
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.
Apple had long believed it would be able to «trounce Amazon by opening up [its] own
ebook store,» but the intense
price competition that prevailed among e-book
retailers in late 2009 had driven the
retail price of popular e-books to $ 9.99 and had reduced
retailer margins on e-books to levels that Apple found unattractive.
When you move to
eBooks, however, you are now dealing with an organization bearing less overhead — it stands to reason more
of the
retail price of the book could be passed on to authors.
Agency
pricing basically allowed Apple to compete out
of the gate against Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Kobo by getting top publishers to agree to set the
prices of eBooks, rather then the online
retailers.
Even though the authors and the publishers will still make their same commission and even though the supremely discounted
price on
ebooks has translated into tens
of thousands
of book sales for authors and fiction's digital sales are up by 188 % for the first half
of the year, authors are speaking out against having their
ebooks discounted at the
retailers» cost.
For the next two years, Amazon and other
retailers will be able to sell the publishers»
ebooks at their own determination
of the
price, or the original «wholesale model.»
With plans ranging from free with a 20 % cut, to as much a $ 199 per month with additional features and benefits, it just might be the answer to major
ebook retailers and the lack
of control over
pricing that authors and publishers have felt.
This is because
ebooks are sold under the agency model where the publisher sets the
price and gets 70 %
of each sale, and the
retailer gets the remaining 30 %.
Amazon has slashed
prices on many
of its own devices today in the run up to Mother's Day, including the Kindle Paperwhite - one
of its best
eBook readers.It is discounted in both the UK and US with # 20 and $ 20 knocked off the
retail prices respectively....
When the world's largest publishers struck
ebook distribution deals with Amazon.com Inc. over the past several months, they seemed to get what they wanted: the right to set the
prices of their titles and avoid the steep discounts the online
retail giant often applies.
«Competition is not served by permitting a market entrant to eliminate
price competition as a condition
of entry, and it is cold comfort to consumers that they gained a new
ebook retailer at the expense
of passing control over all
ebook prices to a cartel
of book publishers.»
Random House has countered this claim saying, «Our publishing house, which is the only one
of the Big Six to make its
ebooks available without restriction for library lending, is setting the library
ebook price with «far less definitive, encompassing circulation data» than the sell - through information used to determine
retail pricing.»