Sentences with phrase «percentage of their ebooks sold»

Possibly because romance in all its forms accounts for a large percentage of ebooks sold.

Many authors do not receive a large percentage of their ebooks sold and publishing companies reap many of the financial gains.

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.

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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 %.