that in January 2016 there were around a million
paid ebook downloads daily from the Amazon US store only — and if we can believe the trends, this number just grew in the last year.
Not exact matches
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pay $ 20 to $ 100 a year for the service.
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Pay With a Tweet is a free service where you can create a button for your site and allow visitors to
download a freebie (
ebook, sample chapters, special report, etc.) in exchange for a tweet.
You can
download as many
ebooks as you want from a catalog of 40,000 titles, and
pay only for what you actually read.
File size matters for Kindle
ebooks because Amazon charges $ 0.15 / MG for a
download fee that the publisher
pays.
I assume that's what the original fonts option would be for (I'm too lazy to
download, import, convert, and sideload everything anymore so I haven't used Calibre in a long time — mostly I just read library
ebooks lately because it's my opinion that 90 % of writers suck at writing so I have no interest in
paying for most books).
We've taken care of it all, and make it easy for our readers to
pay in multiple currencies,
download eBooks, and store their entire library in the cloud.
Canadian libraries have
ebooks available for
download and as someone who has probably
paid enough library fines to buy at least one ereader, I think this counts as my favourite technological advance at the local library.
Despite the fact that
ebook readers are not consuming paper, ink, or fuels associated with shipping costs, they would now
pay the same price for a digital
download as they would be required to if they had bought print.
The essence of this report really says that customers shouldn't have to
pay anything extra to
download ebooks and that they should be able to do it remotely.
As for another large group of people who have not
paid to read
eBooks, there is probably a large percentage of them who have
downloaded legally «free» copies... like ones you have written about in some of your 4456 posts — not only from independent current authors, but from the huge quantity of public domain books offered on large sites like ProjectGutenberg.org — many of which come pre-loaded on some
eBook reading devices.
If you
pay $ 9.99, or any price, for an
ebook of Green, you acquire a license to
download and view a specific software offering.
Simply put, Kindle Unlimited is a program run by Amazon where Kindle subscribers who
pay a monthly fee can
download ebooks on a subscription basis.
How many of these people, will continue to read e-books but will be unwilling to
pay for them and start using NZB or torrent alternatives, or will go to
ebook suppliers that allow them to
download the file to local storage.
While Kotobee offers this free
download option,
paid accounts let users create mobile apps (Android, iOS, and Windows Phone), have the option to host the book online on the company's servers, and give them the ability to create cloud
ebooks and a cloud - based
ebook library.
apart from the file sharing sites that
pay commissions to uploaders based on how many downloaders visit to
download files (most of the most -
downloaded files are copyright infringing
ebooks).
«It not only allows patrons to discover and instantly enjoy our titles, it also allows all eRC libraries to make more
eBooks available to their patrons for
download without
paying for the books upfront.»
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.
There was also support for a tiered pricing model for
ebook downloads, including a pre-paid fee for a predetermined number of
downloads, a per -
download fee, or
paying for the features within the
download, much like the freemium model.
As some readers know, various online «pirate» sites electronically duplicate thousands of popular
ebooks from legitimate sales sites, then make them available to readers — either free or at a nominal charge — without
paying their authors for each
downloaded copy.
The only
ebooks I've bought (except one short story - and that only because I
downloaded a free
ebook from the author and liked it so much I wanted to
pay her) are from this gang.
If religion isn't you thing, you can
download other
ebooks — but non-religious texts must be
paid for.
And every day something like a million
paid ebooks are
downloaded from Amazon's U.S. store.
It seems that when I offer a free
ebook I get a lot of
downloads, however few people really want to
pay.
All KU
downloads should be recorded in the Kindle free chart, not the Kindle
paid chart, until such time as readers hand over real money for the
ebooks.
Irish readers do not yet have access to
paid titles in Apple's iBookstore, the iTunes for books, but they can
download free Project Gutenberg
ebooks to the iPod or iPhone and can also read the free Winnie The Pooh
ebook that comes pre-loaded in Apple's iBooks.
Also, KU Titles make up 32 % of all daily unit
downloads of
paid ebooks on Amazon.
Amazon only
pays 35 % for
ebook outside a restrictive $ 2.99 - 9.99 window and charges grossly inflated «
download fees» that lower the real royalty rate to 60 - 65 % inside that range.
I rarely
pay $ 9.99 for an
ebook, prefering to
download the free or «paperback» priced books.
After the release of The Five Warriors, I
paid a book promotion site to feature my free
ebook which resulted in over 1500
downloads in one day.
I personally think the Booki.sh system would be ideally suited to an
ebook rental model which would provide a point of differrence and might also address some of the concerns about buying an
ebook that you can't
download — if you're only renting it for a week or a month, you'll
pay less and you won't be so concerned that you don't have a local copy to keep.
With business models that link online stores to specialised gadgets, companies like Apple and Amazon are proving that consumers will
pay for music
downloads,
ebooks and even online newspaper subscriptions if you make it easy and attractive enough.
Download thousands of free and
paid ebooks, highlight excerpts, take notes in your books and contracts, organize your books, add your favorite catalogs in your «Bookstores» area and much more!
Is this their attempt at stalling the
eBook revolution, by making consumers
pay more for the convenience of a
download?
In addition to buying reviews, Locke also
paid the reviewers to
download his.99
ebooks so that the reviews showed up on Amazon as «verified purchases.»
That «in some cases» is in italics for a reason: Amazon will continue to
pay authors / publishers the same as before for
ebooks that are actually purchased; the change only affects books
downloaded from the Kindle Online Lending Library or through Kindle Unlimited.
Among other things, this shows publishers that you're meticulously recording, and
paying for, every
ebook downloaded.
Pricing for the BookDaily «Free
Ebook Download Promotion» will be on a
pay per click basis.
Enthrill puts racks of attractive
ebook gift cards into bookstores and other retail sites, allowing shoppers in brick - and - mortar stores to
pay terrestrial cash registers for digital books they
download using codes on those cards.
Sell an
ebook for 2.99 and with the 70 % «royalty» you'll collect 2.00, having
paid maybe 0.05 for the
download.
The method of payout for this service has been controversial among self - published authors, and requires an explanation: Traditionally published
ebooks downloaded from Kindle Unlimited earn the same amount as a sale, but for self - published authors, a «borrow»
pays out differently than a purchase.
If a KU customer
downloaded an
ebook while it was still in KU, the author of that book will still get credited and
paid for any pages read by that customer while the book remains on their device, even if the title was subsequently withdrawn from KU.
I
download a few of the free offerings from Amazon and convert them, using Calibre, to epub for my Kobo ereader, but I've never
paid for an Amazon
ebook and I hope never to have to.
now if Kindle could come up with a concept like this for kindle 4 and have the rumored android device more as a entertainment device that has it
download store movies, android apps, kindle, mp3 music all on one device to take on ipad than I might be a little more intrested I just can't see
paying for a device from a company that has called chapter 11 and and have a canadian
ebook company that can't get the rights to some of the better american author like apple and amazon has done
The survey calculates that in mid-January 2016, Amazon's US
ebook sales were running at a rate of 1,064,000
paid downloads a day.
The iBookstore lawsuit promising partial refunds for
ebook buyers who
paid over-the-odds for their
downloads is another step closer to making payouts, with cash from Penguin and Macmillan swelling the combined coffers to $ 162.25 m.
Subscribers
paying $ 8.99 a month for up to 10 books are not going to see any value in
downloading $ 0.99
ebooks and it's unlikely they'll be bothering too much with books at $ 1.99 either.