Also, KU Titles make up 32 % of all daily unit downloads of
paid ebooks on Amazon.
Not exact matches
Now BookFunnel delivers half a million
ebook downloads each month
on behalf of 3,000 indie authors, who
pay $ 20 to $ 100 a year for the service.
A good landing page will target a particular audience, such as traffic from an email campaign promoting a particular
ebook, or visitors who click
on a
pay - per - click ad promoting your webinar.
That educational
ebook is probably not very focused
on how awesome your products and services are, but it should address concepts that align with your
paid offerings.
People who've bought software programmes, online movies, apps or
ebooks are also more likely to
pay for online news; in other words, users who
pay for entertainment
on their devices are more likely to
pay for information as well.
I'm trying to purchase your
ebook however it doesn't ask me to select the endomorph book
on the first page prior to
paying?
Would have
paid $ 30 for this
ebook a $ 1 a tip because I end up spending that much
on 1 month being
on online dating sites.
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My main business is B2C coaching and consulting and during this challenge I am trying to build up the Information Product side of my business which will include a
paid online course based
on my latest
ebook cum mini-course.
They are making record profits from the margins
on ebooks and from
paying authors like crap.
This is a recurring theme, as I've already posted twice
on the subject: Pricing your
ebook: Is free the new
paid?
On the other hand, consumers don't want to
pay as much for an
ebook as they do for the print version.
Pay per use is the ultimate way of
ebook pricing based
on the reading experience.
$ 3 is still not a huge stretch compared to the $ 10 or more most traditional publishers are charging for
ebooks, but as an Indie author, I want to make sure to keep a handle
on what my readers are expecting and willing to
pay.
Barnes & Noble will
pay or cause to be
paid your Royalties
on sales of your
eBook approximately sixty (60) days following the end of the calendar month during which it is sold.
As mentioned previously, in the section
on subscription based
ebook pricing models,
pay per use models usually
pay publishers a pre-set rate.
You have to go to the library, maybe the book has been checked out and you have to come back another time... With
ebooks, you sit
on your couch in your living room and go to the library website, see if the library has it... You get the book, read it, return it and get another, all without
paying a thing... How is that a good model for us?»
We don't have to worry about them taking that brand elsewhere because we're
paying 50 % net
on ebook sales and offering limited terms of contract.
Library Directwill allow libraries to bundle books in Smashwords» catalog and select the books based
on sales ranking; partnered with the new Pricing Manager which allows authors and publishers to set the prices that libraries will
pay, even opting to make their titles free to libraries, the amount of
ebook titles that libraries can offer to patrons will increase.
Also, the
ebooks on offer will comprise of both free and
paid titles.
Not to mention this is a huge boon for indie developers who are releasing high quality audiobook and
ebook apps
on the Apple platform, where users
pay to unlock certain features or purchase content.
If you want your
ebook on Kobo and Apple to have an ISBN as well, you must
pay for another one, because each format should have its ISBN!
I don't believe Amazon has the rights to your book if you post your book
on their marketplace via KDP... What I do know, is that you have to
pay extra (a lot, actually), if you want your
ebook to have an ISBN.
Either we take example of France and Canada, who have recognised industry data
on ebooks / books as a matter of public interest, and therefore subsidise them, or we completely change the business model, and actually have the people who benefit from the data
pay for it.
So I buy the hardcover books and try to get my hands
on the
ebook while I don't have the money to
pay twice.
According to research by Dutch firm GfK, only 10 % of all
eBooks on devices were actually
paid for, with most of the digital books being pirated.
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.
Why should indie authors or small publishers
pay for ISBNs
on ebooks when those bring them absolutely no value?
Why would someone
pay as much if not more for an
ebook that it has been made clear
on more than
on occasion that you don't actually own than you would for an actual book.
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.
Before the arrival of the «agency pricing» model that Apple negotiated with
ebook publishers — which allowed the publishers to decide what price Apple would charge for their books
on the iPad — Amazon had deals that
paid a specific wholesale price to publishers for a certain number of copies, and then it was able to charge whatever it wanted for the books in the Kindle store.
Plan for some
paid marketing
on ebook promotion sites where you want to ensure your book will be listed and highly visible.
My Android tablet does a reasonable job of displaying PDF, which is the only format of
ebook that I currently actually
pay money for — I can read format that
on all of my computers, my tablet, and even my cellphone, and I can make permanent backups.
Also check out
Pay With a Tweet, a free service that will set up a shopping cart button for your site to deliver your
ebook in exchange for a tweet or mention
on Facebook!
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.
I first heard you interviewed
on Pay Flynn's podcast, and have since been looking through your site and have gotten a couple of your
ebooks.
(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 au
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 au
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 authors.
When you're done, you'll be able to read them
on any system or device, convert those MOBI or PRC
ebooks to PDF or any other format you'd like and you'll — once again — own those books that you've
payed for.
So, yes, if Hachette
pay $ 2 billions just in advances each year to the authors it publishes, if you add the overhead, the prospect of losing money
on ebook sales is not good.
-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-...]
Since you have the opportunity to earn additional income from
eBook sales, the government requires that you
pay taxes
on the total earnings.
A versatilely - skilled author - publisher can do many of those tasks
on her own (I actually like doing print layout and
ebook conversions, though apparently I'm in the minority, and I have a lot of website background) but will still need to
pay for tools, such as layout or graphics software, graphics resources and typefaces, web hosting, etc..
A wonderful break for Indie authors indeed because they can now advertise their
ebooks on Amazon with this new
pay - per - click campaign.
Step three, top selling authors realize that if Amazon sells half of their books already, and 80 % of their
ebooks, and Amazon will
pay them triple to five times more than their publishers do, then thay can make more money
on Amazon right now.
You have two options here: request to get your
eBook mentioned
on the date of your promotion without
paying for it (a shot in the dark, perhaps), or
pay for a guaranteed spot (if available).
But it looks like reader preferences are shifting toward
ebooks; assuming that trend keeps up, that's saying the same thing, we'll help you find information and recreational reading that we
pay for for you, you don't need to
pay for it individually — but only
on old crusty print that you don't actually want.
I already decided I'd go with createspace for the paperback, my question is this: if someone orders the book
on amazon (or createspace estore) would I have to
pay for shipping it, like with the
ebook's delivery cost?
On ebooks, industry standard is 25 % of NET — the price HarperCollins gets
paid by the retailer, typically about half the cover price.
DRM - protected, hard - to - use, expensive,
ebooks), are based
on the idea that individual students and scholars all have access to materials
on an equal basis, materials
paid for collectively by the institution.