Sentences with phrase «over ebook royalties»

Quill and Quire reported today that romance publishing company Harlequin has been dragged into court over ebook royalties by as many as 1,000 authors filing a class action lawsuit.

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And if you price your ebook over $ 9.99, you need to know that you're losing money on every sale between $ 10.00 and $ 19.99, because you're making half the royalty — but you're also killing your sales, because (as I mention in # 2 below), ebook prices tend to be fairly elastic — raising the price by a dollar can often lose you more than a dollar in sales.

Digital royalties have been one of the major sticking points in the debate over traditional vs. self - publishing, with many people (even from the traditional publishing world) arguing that big publishers should raise digital royalties on ebooks to at least 50 percent.

Harlequin may be Canadian, but are not really involved in eBooks except for their imprint Karina Press which is all about e-Books but there is a running debate if they screw their authors over with royalties an never give advances.

People like to say ebooks are forever (i.e., you and your descendants will earn royalties until the sentient raccoons take over the world in 6400 A.D. and place humankind in chains), but I really didn't believe I'd sell 1143 copies before the raccoon apocalypse.

Publishers will likely be forced to increase ebook royalty rates over time, but I certainly view that as another positive impact of what's happening with ebook publishing.

Yep, the Traditional Publishers are messing over their writers by paying crappy royalties on ebooks.

As for the lower royalty rates above $ 9.99 on ebooks, that was discussed over and over last fall, and it was one of the terms that leaked repeatedly in the press.

With its outrageous download fees for ebooks (megabyte for megabyte, over five times more expensive than Verizon cell phone data charges) and the low royalty it pays on books outside a narrow price range ($ 2.99 - 9.99), Amazon is probably earning double the profits on ebooks as competitors such as Apple or various national ebook retailers.

Many indie authors eschew pbooks over ebooks because of costs and royalties and other things (I can release an ebook more efficiently than a pbook), but even Amazon does paper (Create Space).

But Ludlum's books aren't commercially available as ebooks, due to a dispute over royalty rates between Ludlum's estate and his... Read more»

Amazon and Jeff Bezos are now being SUED FOR THEFT OF ROYALTIES by Dr. Adoni and they will not be able to explain to a jury how over 100 Titles all of a sudden had almost no interest in the eBooks.

I added some more suggestions over there also: 1 - Make the «royalty» rates permanent for all ebooks currently published.

Our ebook royalty — which we distribute to over a thousand marketplaces (including Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Google Play, and Kobo)-- matches or exceeds that of all direct - to - marketplace relationships.

The 99 % drop that coincided with the public criticism of Dr. Adoni of Amazon and CEO Jeff Bezos led Dr. Adoni to investigate the public financial reports of Amazon and he says the sales history of Amazon proves the publishing monopoly is now doing over 75 Billion a year in eBook related sales and not paying authors on most of the royalties.

I have updated my Ebook Publishing Quick Reference Card (PDF) over at PublishYourOwnEbooks.com This is an excellent resource for indie authors and ebook publishers who would like to be able to see at a glance: The Main Ebook Formats The Major Ebook Stores Ebook Royalties Chart for Each Store Ebook Aggregator Comparison Chart (including 6 major aggregators) Ebook Revenue ChaEbook Publishing Quick Reference Card (PDF) over at PublishYourOwnEbooks.com This is an excellent resource for indie authors and ebook publishers who would like to be able to see at a glance: The Main Ebook Formats The Major Ebook Stores Ebook Royalties Chart for Each Store Ebook Aggregator Comparison Chart (including 6 major aggregators) Ebook Revenue Chaebook publishers who would like to be able to see at a glance: The Main Ebook Formats The Major Ebook Stores Ebook Royalties Chart for Each Store Ebook Aggregator Comparison Chart (including 6 major aggregators) Ebook Revenue ChaEbook Formats The Major Ebook Stores Ebook Royalties Chart for Each Store Ebook Aggregator Comparison Chart (including 6 major aggregators) Ebook Revenue ChaEbook Stores Ebook Royalties Chart for Each Store Ebook Aggregator Comparison Chart (including 6 major aggregators) Ebook Revenue ChaEbook Royalties Chart for Each Store Ebook Aggregator Comparison Chart (including 6 major aggregators) Ebook Revenue ChaEbook Aggregator Comparison Chart (including 6 major aggregators) Ebook Revenue ChaEbook Revenue Chart...

So I'm basically losing money hand over fist because Hyperion is pricing my ebooks too high, and giving me too low a royalty rate.

By only paying 35 % royalties for ebooks priced outside the $ 2.99 - 9.99 range, Amazon forces up the price of inexpensive ebooks (those that would cost less that $ 2.99) and roughly doubles the price of schools textbooks whose limited sales mean they must be priced over $ 9.99.

Other advantages encompass 70 % of royalties for eBooks sold through Amazon for $ 2.99 and under, and 65 % for eBooks $ 9.99 and over, as opposed to KDP's usual 35 %.

Over the last few years, millions of readers have purchased and downloaded books from the Smashwords Store, which offers readers DRM - free, multi-format ebooks, and offers authors industry - leading royalties of up to 80 % list.