Sentences with phrase «point about ebook prices»

To your point about ebook prices, I have to say, I won't pay a lot, regardless of the hype.

Not exact matches

I may very well write another ebook with a lower price point about specific topics.

That's a good point about YA and their typical hardcover releases affecting ebook prices.

We also discussed ebook pricing and the $ 2.99 price point (and J.A. Konrath) that I blogged about last month.

Publishers are seeing squeezed profit margins and they are clearly on notice about how third parties such as Amazon are controlling the perception of what pricing should be for eBooks (with their $ 9.99 price point or lower).

As the owner of an ebook and ereader blog that is heavily invested in research into the tablet industry, I would advise windows tablet purchasers to wait about a year before buying to give software developers and microsoft the chance to work the bugs out as well as the price to come down to the point it appeals to mainstream consumers rather than early adopters.

Including this whole piece of work, which as many folks including you have observed, is about far deeper, longer range issues than tomorrow's ebook price points.

1) Produce lots of titles to increase name recognition and sales overall; 2) Lower your price point and the readers will follow; 3) Don't worry about pricing, just focus on great writing; 4) Be a guest blogger, have your own blog, tweet, join forums, talk to readers, get reviews; 5) Use your ebook as a promotional piece to sell classes, services, and other products; 6) There is no magic bullet, just keep doing everything and eventually you'll break through.

Again, note that I'm not mad about the ebook pricing dispute, and did not take sides at any point.

I also don't know if you've been following my point about a single source controlling pricing now (Amazon) vs six publishers and two major retailers interacting (the big six plus Apple and Amazon), but I can't help believing that leaving the entire process of ebook pricing and market setting in the hands of single source is less desirable than allowing all the market players to interact.

I just bought a hardcover of Stephen Pinker's latest book because it was about the same price as an ebook; I would have bought through Kobo if Kobo offered the right price point (they didn't, but Indigo sure did).

When you read blog posts and articles about people calling for lower eBook prices, remember that this is not a call to a universal 99 cents price point, but a wake - up call for the fat cats in the NY publishing houses, who still believe that having an illiterate like Snooki «write» a book is a better idea than giving an actual writer a chance.

When Apple allegedly approached the publishers about switching to an agency model in order to prevent Amazon from selling ebooks at what was often below cost in order to encourage the sale of Kindle readers, Amazon lost the option to sell ebooks at its previously advertised $ 9.99 price point.

The other great thing about ebooks is that you can test your price points.

So, reality check one: The whole «eBook» thing is not just about the price - point that publishers want to charge for books.

In a post the other day about bargain prices for a couple of Elizabeth Peters ebooks in the Kindle Store, I made the point that readers may actually be able to influence publisher pricing behavior when we jump on bargain prices like those mentioned in the post, even while the Kindle bestseller list shows some signs that Kindle owners are accepting agency - model pricing:

Aaron, You're right about the income, depending on the price of the ebook and what p - book you're comparing it to... but the point I was trying to make wasn't about what authors can earn, but about the promotional advantage lower - priced ebooks have, given ebook enthusiasts» strong feelings about how ebooks should be priced.

In my earlier post about ebook pricing, I pointed to a study that suggested the optimal range for pricing digital novels is in the $ 2 to $ 6 range.

I see about 10:1 sales of ebooks to paperback, and I don't do ANY reformatting or cover changes... Whatever else you want to say, Amazon has given us a world of new authors to try, and I'm staying under the $ 5 price point to hopefully entice more buyers to try my books.

Ok, from what I can see with ebooks, the price point they make such a big deal about is almost irrelevant because you have no «replacement cost.»

The point about the low price of ebooks for the Kindle is an important one; publishers and Amazon have tussled over how much those books should cost.

Point One: The complaint reads: «The fact that Apple brokered the simultaneous switch to the Agency model, and the Publisher Defendants agreed to standardize higher eBook prices, is amply demonstrated by a January 2010 interview in which Apple CEO Steve Jobs told Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal that Amazon's $ 9.99 pricing for eBooks was about to end:

Publishers earn a MUCH higher percentage of the cover price on ebooks than they do on print — they are significantly more profitable, as Penguin (for example) pointed out in their stockholder report about a year ago.

The collusion and price - fixing case in 2010 was so much about the $ 9.99 price point, that when Publishers Weekly wrote an ebook about the trial, they entitled the book THE BATTLE OF $ 9.99.

Apart from the publicly available data about the lower end of eBook price points capturing reader's attention, the latest data analysis from the German website, die Self - Publisher - Bibel, suggests that between $ 0 and $ 2 is not necessarily the sweetest spot in terms of revenue in several markets that readers chase after.

I've written about this more here, but the point is that publishers» adoption of agency pricing happened as the ebook market was taking off, and was in response to those market changes.