, there's also a point of diminishing return, where in fact you are lowering
the perceived value of the book more than the low price can make up for.
Jaq D Hawkins: What one book costs has no direct effect on the quality of another book, but I do think that free books have demeaned
the perceived value of books and the fact that there are a lot of substandard self - publishers giving away free books has had a large impact on the expectations of readers.
If an important blogger or reporter writes about a book, readers will appreciate it as a title curated by a media outlet they trust, which helps increase
the perceived value of your book.
For a shorter book a smaller size can increase the thickness and
the perceived value of the book.
In addition, higher prices for just one publisher's e-books would not change consumer perceptions enough to slow the erosion of consumer -
perceived value of books that all the Publisher Defendants feared would result from Amazon's $ 9.99 pricing policy.
Publishers were always trying to prevent that from happening because it lowered
the perceived value of books,» said Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New York University who specializes in digital economics.
Not exact matches
As authors and business owners, self - publishers need to toe that line between acquiring new readers while also maintaining a high
perceived value for their
books — so Midnight Publishing cautions against pricing a
book that low unless it's for a limited time and coincides with another type
of discount or special, like Amazon's Kindle Countdown Deals.
Perhaps even more importantly, it allows publishers to maintain the
perceived value of a physical
book over the often dramatically discounted prices Amazon and other retailers offer on digital titles.
A
book has a much higher
perceived value than your run -
of - the - mill postcard or marketing piece.
Collectors are still the main consumers
of comic
books, and there is no
value,
perceived or real, in digital comics.
However, the publishers said the ability
of the vendors to sell through the world's largest online retailer «causes even greater damage» to their businesses by «undercut [ting] sales and the
perceived value of authorised and legitimate copies»
of the
books.
I understand that you want to keep the
perceived value of the service high so you are vetting the
books right now.
If you doubt that, have a gander at Joseph Heller's and Norman Cousins» respective
books No Laughing Matter and Anatomy
of an Illness as
Perceived by the Patient, in both
of which the respective authors report on the therapeutic
value of humor.
Signed
books are
perceived to be
of more
value than unsigned
books, and with any luck, so will yours be someday.
For example, if you're charging $ 14.99 for a 90 - page paperback and you've got a slew
of one - star reviews saying the
book isn't worth $ 14.99, it's time to evaluate price versus
perceived value.
According to the Justice Department,
book publishers were worried in 2009 that Amazon, then the largest retailer
of electronic
books, was lowering the
perceived wholesale
value of the
books, due to its strategy
of discounting
books for $ 9.99.
Books have been something
of an anomaly, a product that you paid cash for due to its
perceived content
value.
Or you can increase the
perceived value (ex: giving away a
book that has a relatively high retail price and proven quality in the form
of plenty
of 5 star reviews).
But if their inclusion in KDP Select generates additional sales because
of the
perceived value, it may well be worth enrolling those
books in KDP Select.
There's the same question
of perceived value with a 99 cent - $ 1.99
book that there is with a free
book.
It indicates what the
value of books is
perceived to be.
And then there's the
perceived value of free
books: If the
books are free, I don't care so much about them.
Publishers were rather unhappy with this arrangement since it meant that customers might well become used to seeing affordable prices on their reading material and cause paper copies
of books to lose
perceived value.
But, still, that's a lot
of outlay in real money — not just
perceived value that exists «on the
books».