The phrase
"prices publishers" means setting or determining the cost at which publishers sell their products, such as books or magazines.
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pricing publishers set the price for their titles and, guess what, it is the same price everywhere.
Nobody expects them to be free all the time or priced at less than # 1 but equally, there's no excuse for the
high prices some publishers seem to want.
They want to control everything themselves: the content, design, marketing of their book and most importantly the division of royalties, since instead of the 10 - 15 percent of
list price publishers pay, an author can receive 70 percent or more of list price and make a lot more money.
The normal discount rate that distributors require from publishers, the percentage off the
cover price the publisher gives the distributor for a book that they resell to a retail outlet, is 55 % or more.
On the other hand, many traditionally published authors bemoaned the high
prices their publishers set for their ebooks, which were often higher than the paperback price.
The Toronto Public Library, Canadian Library Council, Ontario Library Association and the Canadian Library Association want to bring awareness to the super
high prices publishers are charging them for e-books.
Amazon doesn't pay the 70 % royalty based on the list price, which is
the price the publisher set.
The Toronto Public Library, Canadian Library Council, Ontario Library Association and the Canadian Library Association want to bring awareness to the super high
prices publishers are... [Read more...]
In most cases, that was $ 9.99,
a price the publishers believed was too low.
They have a special way of saying this now, discounting
the price the publisher (that would be me) has priced it at.
I've made my living in medical publishing and textbooks (including nursing) for over 20 years now, and I promise you, Amazon has nothing to do with the high
prices publishers are charging for textbooks.
What this statement is actually aimed at is Amazon's desire to sell the so - called best sellers at $ 9.99,
a price the publishers have arbitrarily determined to be undervalue.
14.9 % on
a price the publisher sets.
Settling publisher by settling publisher, those shoes are to fall, and those contracts with retailers are being rewritten to no longer require the retailers» adherence to
the prices publishers set for ebooks.
And as far as reading reviews, if I know it is a LooseID or the higher
priced publisher, I don't even read the review.
Or the Internet will collapse, or
the prices publishers charge for the online version will go through the roof leading to cancellation — and if the online version was the only one subscribed, then, poof, the library would have nothing.