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.
Any movement is better than no movement, because once
the process of ebook pricing and rights allocation is unfrozen, there can be room for competing models.
Not exact matches
Pull all
of your book data into the ISBN management section: title, subtitle,
price, ISBN,
eBook ISBN,
eBook price, trim size, page count, word count, category, age group — into book ISBN fields at www.myidentifiers.com (this will start the
process of getting your book's data out to the world and make it easier for the sales to be tracked.)
The
price of your
ebook can be altered throughout your marketing
process to coincide with promotions.
When you get to the final tab in the KDP publishing
process — Kindle
eBook Pricing — after Amazon tries to lure you into its fools - gold KDP Select program and asks you what territories you hold the distribution rights for (in most cases, «All territories» — unless you've licensed some away), there's a panel titled Royalty and
Pricing — the cause
of our anxiety.
Pull all
of your book data into one place: title, subtitle,
price, ISBN,
eBook ISBN,
eBook price, trim size, page count, word count, category, age group — into book ISBN fields at www.MyIdentifiers.com (this will start the
process of getting your book's data out to the world and make it easier for the sales to be tracked by Nielsen Bookscan.)
I can not help but wonder if those
prices are not an attempt to have one's cake and eat it too: to try to drive
ebooks out
of the market or else reap a bonus profit in the
process.
While Vellum's
price tag is supposed to let authors make one version
of their
ebooks that look streamlined and professional then upload it to all retail platforms, the
price of the service is fairly close to what some formatters would charge to produce the different file versions
of the books, and all the author has to do there is email the original document
of the book without going through the laborious
process of formatting it within the app.
If you upload your print and / or
ebook to the various retail channels through their distribution
process, they will take a portion
of each sale: «Dependent upon wholesale discount, IngramSpark publishers receive 45 — 70 %
of their list
price on print titles sold through the distribution channel, minus manufacturing costs (some markets may vary).
A US judge is still in the
process of handling the DOJ lawsuit against Apple — along with five
of the then - Big Six publishers — for conspiring to raise the
price of ebooks in order to impact the market share that Amazon held over the industry.
Due to the nature
of the
process I really needed to make it an
ebook, because it references a lot
of online material — although mine is a lot cheaper than the
prices you mention above (wow!)
Well, suffice it to say that individuals and groups associated with the defendants are sounding off through the comment
process, and they are making very strong claims to the general effect that DOJ's efforts to protect consumers against
ebook price - fixing are misguided, because the DOJ should instead be protecting the interests and the distribution infrastructure
of the same publishers who colluded with Apple to raise
ebook prices by 30 to 100 percent back in 2010.
At every stage
of the publication
process; proof - reading, word conversion, website design and vendor platform acceptance,
Ebooks by Design provided a top quality service at a very reasonable
price.
The usual
process is to set a wholesale
price based on a discount off the suggested retail
price of the
ebook or the printed book equivalent (expect smaller discounts than you're used to).
eBook RETAIL
PRICE = The Production costs
of the Publisher (editing,
processing, e-
processing) + the Marketing costs
of the Publisher + Writer's Royalty + the Publishers Margin + the eRetailer's Margin.
I hope you'll take the conclusion from what you've just read: is the 10 - dollar difference in
price worth the effort
of pushing the entire
ebook collection through the time - consuming and difficult
process of conversion?
This newfound «accepted wisdom,» propagated by the press who love to chart the demise
of the publisher whilst celebrating the rise
of shiny tablets, pads, and e-readers, puts a downward pressure on book
prices (especially
ebooks «competing» with self published titles) and recklessly ignores the important role that publishers do play, not in the conventional distribution role, but in the creative
process itself.