Sentences with phrase «own ebook prices»

The giant retailer didn't discuss its ebook pricing strategy but is known for discounting.

My own Canadian publisher, Penguin, has been fighting with Amazon over ebook pricing and generally trying to resist the digital revolution completely.

The conspiratorially minded might think it has to do with publishers» efforts at buffing up ebook prices with the tech company — something that has brought all parties no end of grief from antitrust watchdogs.

A return to Amazon's $ 9.99 price point is a veritable certainty, while the fact that ebook prices rose in general once Apple entered the market seems like a pretty damning fact in general.

The Justice Department said the scheme caused some ebook prices to rise to $ 12.99 or $ 14.99 from the $ 9.99 price previously charged by market leader Amazon.

Apple did not conspire to fix ebook pricing and we will continue to fight against these false accusations.

To celebrate the gold medal, I have temporarily lowered the eBook price of The Atonement of God on Amazon to $ 2.99 (It's only $ 0.99 if you previously purchased the paperback).

Does your publisher dictate your ebook pricing on Amazon / BN, etc.?

Here's my thinking in a nutshell: Let the big publishers collude to keep ebook prices high all they want.

As a reader I can honestly say that ebooks priced between $.99 — $ 5.00 seems to be a very fair price and is guaranteed to suit most people's budget as well as providing a profit for the author.

Consider an eBook price cut: As mentioned earlier, there's an eager market for romance eBooks so entice readers with a deal.

Continue reading The DOJ's Ebook Price Fixing Lawsuit Against Apple and the «Agency Five»: An Overview

«A key objective is lower e-book prices,» Amazon's Books Team wrote in a July 29 letter posted to the Kindle forum, calling ebook prices of $ 14.99 and $ 19.99 «unjustifiably high.»

Also: a quick look at $ 69 Kindle, an eBook price war launched by Amazon, Mike Shatzkin's praise of Amazon and thoughts on eBook pricing, and a big boost for WorldReader from major publishers.

@JanArrah Here's a good article on ebook pricing from a publisher perspective.

Amazon's argument was that lower ebook prices would lead to more ebook sales, increasing the size of «the total pie.»

Everyone from John Scalzi to the L.A. Times took a shot at questioning, distinguishing, undermining, spinning, and just plain refuting Amazon's assertion that reducing ebook prices would result in more sales and bigger profits for publishers and authors.

In other words, if you have a print version of your ebook, its price anywhere can not be the same as or less than 20 % more than the ebook price on Amazon.

PublishDrive already recalculates digital list prices and ebook pricing for Google.

Pull all of your book data into the ISBN management section: title, subtitle, price, ISBN, eBook ISBN, eBook price, trim size, page count, word count, category, age group — into book ISBN fields at www.myidentifiers.com (this will start the process of getting your book's data out to the world and make it easier for the sales to be tracked.)

If Amazon's ebook prices are low, they'll have to cut prices, too.

My reason for asking is a theory I've not been able to prove or disprove about ebook pricing on BN and to a lesser degree Amazon.

Links mentioned: Book Basset, Kindle Nation Daily's eBookTracker, Luzme, eBook Price Drops, zooLert, and Edward Tufte.

Ebooks priced high by publishers are prices that high not to make a profit on the ebooks, but to cripple ebooks so print books done to the 1801 model can survive.

I'll be a lot more likely to buy it later when the mass market version comes out in print, and the accompanying ebook price comes down.

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

Let me state this one more time: I don't think lowering ebook prices costs anyone money unless and until they drop under that magic point.

Apple's electronic book effort, iBooks, excludes everything from Random House, the biggest publisher in the world, works only on Apple platforms and helped usher in a massive ebook price increase last year.

«The online leviathan Amazon says it is attempting to «lower ebook prices»; publishing conglomerate Hachette argues that it is seeking «terms that value appropriately for the years ahead the author's unique role in creating books, and the publisher's role in editing, marketing, and distributing them.»

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Eventually some publishers agreed to raise their ebook prices and that has resulted in a lawsuit filed by the Justice Department.

I don't believe there is a magic eBook price... [Read more...]

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

I've been hearing readers complain about rising ebook prices and spotted more than a few at $ 12.99, $ 17.99, even $ 29.99, but I hadn't yet seen the numbers on how this affects sales.

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

And this would come at a time that the Agency 5 has already spent the last year raising ebook prices and leaving a bad taste in the mouths of ebook buyers.

Every single time I've heard anyone defend higher ebook prices, they cite the fact that «just because the publication is electronic, that doesn't eliminate costs.»

Low ebook prices depress the dollar volume to less than half the unit volume.

Ebooks online make foreign customers more accessible than ever before, although U.S. ebook pricing leaves many books out of reach in less - developed countries.

The «big six» publishers (Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin Group, HarperCollins, Random House, and Simon & Schuster) are protecting their assets amidst declining author rates, fraught ebook pricing negotiations, fear of piracy, and the increase of self - publishing.

@thecreativepenn Thanks for your advice on not letting Amazon auto - set India ebook prices in your podcast interview with @minalh.

However, after five major publishers made an agreement with Apple on ebook pricing that specified other platforms couldn't undersell Apple, Amazon was forced to raise prices, and many books began selling for $ 14.99.

We set ebook pricing techniques in the metadata, so you just have to give the average list price for your book as you were in an agency model and we will do the magic for you.

Reports as early as March suggested the Department of Justice had opened an investigation into an alleged 2010 deal between Apple and the five publishers — Hachette SA, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster — that forced Amazon to raise ebook prices.

Seth Godin consults his Economics 101 crystal ball to see where ebook prices are really headed.

Assuming an average eBook price of about $ 4.99, and an average royalty rate of 60 %, let's say, you'd have to sell about 1,400 copies every month consistently to make a decent living, and I'm here to tell you that anything having to do with the sale of a non-essential product will never, ever be consistent.

• No publisher has forced higher ebook prices on Amazon itself.

Your curve demonstrates optimal profit points for ebook pricing, but the goal of a publishing house is to maximize TOTAL profits.

I also think one reason publishers are trying to keep ebook prices high (despite evidence that it lowers sales) is b / c they don't know how to effectively do business in an ebook market.

The trends in other industries will affect consumer expectations in publishing — and in small ways, it already has, with a movement geared to opening copyrighted works to the public, and the US Department of Justice suing all of the «big six» and Apple for price fixing (iBookstore prices differ widely from Amazon's), which will likely give Amazon the upper hand in setting ebook prices in the long run.