Sentences with phrase «pricing than the bookstore»

Way better pricing than the bookstore.

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With a 50 % discount from us, bookstores can mark what doesn't sell at half price and do better than returning the books (bookstores pay the shipping for returns, and they pay employees to box up the books).

With more than 1 million titles, including all the latest books from top authors and publishers, the Clean Reader bookstore offers the same books as any other online retailer and with comparable pricing.

But as of this writing, Amazon is offering the book for pre-order — something that many mom - and - pop independent bookstores aren't even set up to do — for less than $ 13 for the hardcover; the Kindle edition is priced just over $ 11, while Barnes and Noble and Kobo are offering the ebook edition for pre-order for more than $ 16.

More bookstores are going to have to take this approach (or one like it); if they don't Amazon will continue to drive wholesale prices down, shrinking profits to the point that selling books will be nothing more than a loss - leader for them.

On a trip through Wales more than a decade ago, the border town of Hay - on - Wye — where some 30 used bookstores live cheek by jowl — beckoned irresistibly, while on another U.K. trip, a book - loving friend and I tracked down an old manor house cum used bookstore in the middle of nowhere in, I think, Buckinghamshire, stuffed to its Victorian rafters with well - priced reading treasures (I have forgotten its name and exact location, and a Google search has come to naught, suggesting that this magical place is long gone — or perhaps only appears one day every hundred years like Brigadoon).

It's very difficult to find a good selection of English language books in bookstores here and they are always priced much higher than ebooks.

As for Kobo, I want to like them, but a) they don't have the magazine subscriptions that I want available in their store, and b) their bookstore prices are even higher than Amazon and B&N.

Prices can be set at a maximum value far lower than the average prices of most competing ebooks and the lack of a professional marketer can cause many self - published books to be lost among the countless other books for sale on sites like the Amazon Kindle bookstore or Barnes & Noble's online bookPrices can be set at a maximum value far lower than the average prices of most competing ebooks and the lack of a professional marketer can cause many self - published books to be lost among the countless other books for sale on sites like the Amazon Kindle bookstore or Barnes & Noble's online bookprices of most competing ebooks and the lack of a professional marketer can cause many self - published books to be lost among the countless other books for sale on sites like the Amazon Kindle bookstore or Barnes & Noble's online bookstore.

And like the books in physical bookstores, Apple products are priced higher than competitors, which obviously costs sales.

And as an eBook writer, it's your choice if you want to price your printed book at $ 15 apiece and get limited distribution in a state where fewer than 10,000 people will see it in their local bookstores.

The authors have to fund the process of setting up the distribution, printing and shipping books to and from a distributor that supplies the bookstores, and they will be paid much less per book than the list price printed on the back.

For the sake of price and convenience, many of those customers turned to internet retailers rather than making the effort to travel to a physical bookstore other than Borders.

Small presses, which use print - on - demand technology rather than cheap offset printing, can not afford to place your book in bookstores (because they have to pay for the high - priced ones that don't sell as well as the ones that do).

Book prices (set by tradpub houses) in brick and mortar bookstores are going to kill the tradpublishing industry more than Amazon or any of its» equivalents ever will.

The cost per book for PoD is also going down, a few years ago, the PoD printing cost was higher than the retail cost of an offset print book, then it dropped so it was lower than the retail cost of a similar sized book, but without sufficient margin to allow you to sell to bookstores at 50 % list price (let alone deal with the returns).

Maybe I'm wrong, but if publishers would reasonably price their books folks would be more likely to buy them from the local independent bookstore where they get good service than from the faceless Amazon.

Amazon's international media sales were greater than their North American media sales for a few years, but the two are converging again as growth overseas falters, due in part to European protection of bricks - and - mortar bookstores through price fixing.

eBook prices must be cheaper than the print books sold in magazine stands or bookstores» said Surat Banditraksana, Porar CEO.

But unfortunately, I made the mistake of mentioning that bookstores obviously get a piece of the book's sales price — prompting another comment about how ebooks are much cheaper than printed books.

Indeed many people in Italy are acquainted with schemes in which you join a «club» that would send you a book every month (unless you opt - out month by month, and if you don't you have to pay the price for it), and would sell books at a price much lower than the bookstore.

You have to admit that's easier, cheaper, and simpler than cutting print prices or trying to come up with some way to give traditional bookstores discounts it does not give Amazon.

So, any sort of wholesale pricing will result in Amazon driving the price of an ebook to be less than the price required for a physical bookstore to be profitable.

This is again due to the collapse of the wholesale market in the 1990's which was almost all mass market paperback, the need then to raise prices on mmps as they moved more heavily into the bookstores, and the costs involved with mmp re the returns system (mmp are «returned» for full refund by ripping off their front covers, returning those to the publishers and the rest of the books are pulped because that's cheaper than shipping those units back, which has been a real mess.)

The Brazil Kindle Store offers over 1.4 million books, now available to Brazilian customers priced in Brazilian Reais (R$), including more than 13,000 Portuguese - language books, 49 of 60 Veja best sellers — the most of any digital bookstore — and the most free books in Portuguese.

Amazon's bookstore offers more than 1 million books, including 800,000 titles priced at $ 9.99 or less.

However when I checked the Amazon bookstore to see if I could at least download Stephen King's latest novel to my desk top, I was informed the e - version price is substantially greater than the paperback copy.

My guess is that influence — amplified through partnerships, online media and other channels — rather than location, price or convenience might be the currency of the leading bookstores of the future.

New books can be purchased online cheaper than at an actual bookstore and many online distributors offer book bundles that can be bought together for a reduced price.

Kobo's bookstore is, in my opinion, better than sony's poor effort but it is still well behind Amazon's and the prices are a little dearer on the titles I've checked.

If we're not with a publishing house and aren't distributed by anyone (or just through the Createspace options), do we have much of a chance getting into bookstores other than local shops like Half Price Books and Book People?

While Chegg discounts of up to 90 %, most discounts will be lower, but the prices will still be way lower than some of the major websites, and definitely lower than your local campus bookstore.