Many authors do not receive a large
percentage of their ebooks sold and publishing companies reap many of the financial gains.
Possibly because romance in all its forms accounts for a large
percentage of ebooks sold.
Not exact matches
eBook publishing will never fully replace paper book publishing, but over the next decade or so, we will see
eBooks gain a much larger
percentage of the total books bought and
sold around the world.
Authors typically are paid a
percentage (which can be up to 40 %)
of the sale from their
ebook or agree to a flat fee from the publisher which will remain fixed regardless
of the number
of books
sold.
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.
Considering the relatively small
percentage of people who read more than 12 books / year,
ebooks» primary
selling points — portability and space - saving — aren't all that compelling outside
of the conference circuit.
And at only a 15 % royalty rate for
ebooks sold through Smashwords, the platform offers the authors a greater
percentage of their sales price in royalty than platforms like Amazon or Barnes & Noble, who take 30 %.
What
percentage of ebooks being
sold come from traditional publishing, small press, and indie authors?
It is reasonable to assume that they price their best
selling ebooks higher, so it is reasonable to assume that a much higher
percentage than just 20 %
of sales are at a price point above $ 9.99.
It is possible that only 20 %
of the
ebooks they have published have a list price above $ 9.99, but that nonetheless some other
percentage (maybe even a large
percentage like 80 or 90 %)
of their
ebooks that actually
sell each day are listed for over $ 9.99.
ABA members will be able to
sell Kobo ereaders in their stores and offer Kobo
ebooks online; they will get a
percentage of the
ebook sales.
And writers who
sold their book to a traditional publisher for a
percentage and no advance only to see the book come out in an
ebook - only edition will be lucky to be displayed on the front page
of the publisher's
ebook website for a week.
Consider the emotive connection to a physical purchase versus an
ebook download, it is likely that the
percentage of «
ebooks sold to read» conversion will be higher, and as a book that has been read is way more likely to get recommended than a book that hasn't... you get the picture....
I've felt for a long time that what authors (agents) should work toward is a fixed amount - per - copy -
sold as an
ebook royalty and just get out
of the
percentages business on
ebooks, which, as we know, can have their prices change on a frequent basis.
If you are an indie author looking for a way to
sell your
eBook, without forking over a good
percentage of your sales to Amazon, then
selling the
eBook on your own WordPress website allows -LSB-...]
If you are an indie author looking for a way to
sell your
eBook, without forking over a good
percentage of your sales to Amazon, then
selling the
eBook on your own WordPress website allows you to keep more
of the profits for yourself.
-LSB-...] If you want to
sell an
eBook, you may have been shocked to discover just how big
of a
percentage places like Amazon and other publishers want to retain from the sale
of your
eBook.
By offering a certain
percentage of sales, you can
sell more
ebooks by doing less work.
This means I get 70 %
of the
ebook price from
selling a book on Amazon and also that I get another 7 % or so (the
percentage depends on how many products you
sell in any given month) from the affiliate commission.
I believe the fear is that as Amazon gets more
of a stranglehold on the
ebook market, they may exert more pressure on suppliers to
sell at lower prices and take a smaller
percentage.
Your
ebook royalty is the money you make from
selling ebooks and usually works out to be a
percentage of the retail price.
In response to Mark Asher: I believe the fear is that as Amazon gets more
of a stranglehold on the
ebook market, they may exert more pressure on suppliers to
sell at lower prices and take a smaller
percentage.
If they are willing to lose money on
ebooks from the Big 5, then why not use some
of their
percentage from KDP titles to promote, discount, and feature the best
selling KDP books?
By other accounts, which try to shine light on
ebook adoption by looking at markets like Amazon (which accounts for a scary two - thirds
of ebook sales), show that a huge and growing
percentage of ebooks are being
sold by indie publishers or authors themselves rather than the bigs, and a third
of them don't even have ISBNs, the universal ID used to track most books.
Before we get into the nitty gritty
of that, it's important to keep in mind that
ebooks are still only a relatively small
percentage of overall books
sold — somewhere between 15 - 25 %, depending on who you talk to and which numbers you go by, and Amazon sales as a
percentage of total books
sold is 27 - 30 %.