Sentences with phrase «paid ebook listings»

All paid ebook listings chosen for a listing on the Book Circle include the following:

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Amazon has just split its ebook top 100 list into a Free and a Paid list, giving much more useful insight into what people are buying and reading digitally.

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.

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.

Plan for some paid marketing on ebook promotion sites where you want to ensure your book will be listed and highly visible.

Or, something I'm contemplating, it might make sense to have a free ebook and then a special not - free edition with cut scenes, interviews, etc, so that you can have a title in the free and paid lists.

Using a second wishlist only for Prime ebooks, I have currently only 57 ebooks on that list, compared to over 1200 on my other wishlist (with some other items and some ebooks already bought), so I can safely say, a lot of books I REALLY want to read are not available with Amazon Prime nor Unlimited, and for that reason alone I think paying extra for Unlimited will not be worth it.

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow auEbooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow auebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

I asked this person if their team paid any attention to the then burgeoning eBook market and watched any of the lists.

And I don't think I'd pay more than $ 6.99 for an ebook because I believe they're worth less than a paperback for all the reasons I listed above.

-LSB-...] 100 paid and free ebooks, updated hourly based on sales on Amazon; Random Writing Rants has a good post with interesting tips on how to make it onto an Amazon bestseller list, which is -LSB-...]

Ironically, most of his takeaways are things that weren't unknown to anyone paying attention a year ago, including the value of an email list; the importance of an author's platform; the increasingly out - of - whack signal: noise ratio in the market; print as premium product; the power of free promotions combined with targeted marketing; and, perhaps the most obvious, ebooks have a long way to go before they replace print.

You can get a paid listing if your ebook does not meet these criteria.

With Kindle Ebook Giveaways, you pay a flat listing fee to give away up to 100 copies of your book.

If getting published traditionally doesn't especially help you to get your books on the shelves of stores (unless you are talented, awesome, hard - working, and lucky enough to be a Jim Butcher), then you've got a legitimate reason to question whether you want to roll the dice with traditional publishers (who absolutely offer many great advantages), or get 70 % royalties on your indie ebooks and get paid 80 % of your print book's list price (minus the cost of POD printing) with your print - on - demand book via Lightning Source and their 20 % short discount option — which gets you right into Amazon.com and other online bookstores, just like the big boys do.

Below is a list of free Christian books, some are ebooks that are super easy to read on your digital devices and others are paperback books where the author is willing to send you a free book by mail as well as pay for shipping.

Earlier on in the week this policy hit the mainstream news as Sony's new Reader application was denied from being listed because users paid Sony directly for Magazine and eBook purchases.

In exchange for incentives such as paid royalties when Kindle owners borrowed the books, authors were not allowed to list their ebooks for sale anywhere else, including their own websites, and were not able to use platforms like Wattpad where users could interact with the book.

You can check out the full list HERE to see the top 100 hundred list of paid ebooks under the new pricing program.

For example, in February libraries paid six times the consumer price for ebooks on the USA Today bestseller list.

Except for the essential classics and occassional promotional free ebooks, it is the paid titles in the book stores are the one that you are most likely to be at the top of the reading list.

If you're paying any attention to the Amazon Top 100, you'll know that my ebook, The List, is currently ranked # 35.

For indie authors and publishers who can agree to Amazon's list of demands, notably making their works available exclusively through Amazon for a set period of time and allowing their works to be loaned through the Kindle lending library, there is a fund of $ 6 million, divided into monthly amounts, allocated to pay authors as ebooks are borrowed.

eBooks are much cheaper than paper books and if the real price difference was reflected in list prices people would not be willing to pay the premium for paper books.

For more resources, there are Amazon ebooks that give huge lists of free and paid promotion sites including social media.

The Forlorn is actually second on my favorites list of your books, but the fact that not only can it be gotten for free as an ebook on the Library, but has been that way for years, means that a lot of the potential readers of your ebooks already have it, or will pick it up for free rather than paying for it.

Lizard has also compiled a free ebook listing 45 blogs that pay $ 50 or more per post, broken down into sections like Writing Blogs, Food Blogs, etc..

You can also pay a service like BookBub to promote your discounted eBook to their email list — a strategy that many indie authors swear by if you have a book in the right genre.

Apple by contrast has fifty global ebook store sand pays 70 % regardless of where sold or what the list price is.

An often talked about option for marketing books (especially fiction books) is eBook discovery services like Bookbub, where readers sign up to regular e-mails of discounted books and authors pay to have their books listed.

Even though the bestseller list is dominated by books backed by mainstream publishers, indie - authors can use the list to gauge the zeitgeist and monitor what readers are willing to pay for quality ebooks.

If you list your eBook in the $ 2.99 to $ 9.99 range, Kindle pays out 70 percent... that means $ 2.09 to $ 6.99 for each eBook that is sold.

and some are killing the bestseller lists (as of last night GP Ching's Soulkeepers Series was # 808 on the Paid Kindle list — that's # 808 out of ALL EBOOKS ON AMAZON.

Use the drop list here to choose the number of ebooks you have entered in the competition and then click Add to Cart to pay entry fees for them.

If the publisher paid the same list royalties on the $ 15 ebook as it did for the $ 30 hardcover, the author would earn $ 1.50 — $ 1.75.

I asked this person if their team paid any attention to the then bourgeoning eBook market and watched any of the lists.

From a production point of view, once publishers with large lists include accessibility in their workflows for some books, there's little doubt that the same attention will be paid to every ebook published.

Back in July, Amazon first introduced their new Kindle Unlimited ebook subscription service in the United States, where users pay a monthly subscription fee to gain unlimited access to the list of ebooks available in the program.

Smashwords delivers ebook preorders to B&N, and pays 60 % list for all prices $.99 and above.

IngramSpark pays 45 - 70 % of the listing price for printed titles in their book distribution network and only 40 % for eBooks.

Even if Barnes & Noble offers your eBook on NOOK at a discount, they'll pay you 50 % of your list price.

Michael Cader at Publishers Lunch is reporting that Kobo Writing Life (the self - publishing platform) terms and conditions have been updated to tell indie authors that they'll be paid from a monthly pool of overall subscription income at Kobo Plus, «based on reads — counted when a user has read «at least 20 percent of the ebook» — with each book's read pro-rated from the pool at a rate of 60 percent of the list price.

Since then I have been attempting to get KDP CS to show me ONE INSTANCE where an ebook in a giveaway I ran received sales ranking credit for either the PAID or the FREE bestseller lists.

If you can pay enough people to buy your.99 ebook and review it positively, and crack one of Amazon's bestseller lists, readers are going to check it out.

In other words, if Amazon is paying PRH 70 % of list, they are basically giving PRH ebooks away at close to cost and earning at most 6 % on them.

Amazon is required to pay the publisher roughly half that price, or about $ 12.50 for every copy sold, but that ebook might be one of the many that are listed at $ 9.99 for the Kindle.

And yet, if that ebook price is for Amazon, they would actually * earn more * by pricing the ebook at 9.99 than at 11.25 because Amazon pays 70 % of list price up to 9.99, and only 35 % on ebooks priced higher than that.

(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.)

Rather, publishers are using a modified form of agency: They set an ebook's list price and pay the retailer a commission (Before the settlement went through, that commission was 30 percent; we don't know what the new retailer contracts dictate, but the commission is likely still around 30 percent.)