Sentences with phrase «published authors pricing»

I haven't come across too many self - published authors pricing their ebooks that highly yet, but that doesn't mean you can't try it.

What Amazon wants is to sell as many books as possible, and that means finding the most efficient price between where traditionally published authors and self - published authors price their books.»

Not exact matches

Moreover, authors can also self - publish through Amazon and other outlets, also at whatever prices they desire.

They were headed for $ 1.40 per litre back in 2012 when the author of The End of Growth published his warning that the high price of oil would soon halt the economic expansion we had taken for granted for decades.

Many companies do this, but it's not optimal,» says Mark Stiving, author of Impact Pricing: Your Blueprint for Driving Profits (CWL Publishing Enterprises, 2011).

Where copyright led to books being priced as luxury goods in the U.K., the threat of piracy forced German publishers to produce cheap editions for the masses alongside their premium - priced editions, resulting in a period that Höffner believes may have been the most lucrative ever for authors — he discovered, for example, that an obscure Berlin chemist earned more in royalties for a tract on how to tan leather than Mary Shelley did for writing Frankenstein — prompting more academics to publish their findings, and encouraging the spread of practical manuals in fields like medicine, engineering and agriculture.

THE STORYTELLER»S SECRET From TED Speakers to Business Legends, Why Some Ideas Catch On and Others Don't Author: Carmine Gallo Review Issue Date: December 15, 2015 Online Publish Date: December 6, 2015 Publisher: St. Martin's Pages: 272 Price (Hardcover): $ 27.99...

Books have always been overpriced, and publishing companies and individual authors who want to control the price of books had better figure out a new way to make money... and quick.

Luther did not want to tangle personally with the great scholar, seventeen years his senior, and the best known literary man in Europe; only this very year (1516), Erasmus the famous author of Enchiridion Militis Christiani (Manual of the Christian Knight, 1503) had published in addition to the Greek New Testament his edition of Jerome, and an original work commissioned for the likely future emperor, sixteen - year - old Charles Habsburg of Castile and the Netherlands, grandson of Emperor Maximilian, Institutio Principis Christiani (The Education of a Christian Price), a plea for international peace and the encouragement of learning.

The author of Ina May's Guide to Childbirth (click here to check price on Amazon) has over 30 years experience in being a midwife and has been published in medical journals on the subject.

The study, published in the September issue of Annals of Surgery online, shows that providing pricing information upfront can influence patient choice of surgical procedures and potentially lead to cost savings in health care, a sector of the economy that accounts for more than 17 percent of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product, says Eric R. Scaife, M.D., senior author, associate professor of surgery and chief of pediatric surgery at the University of Utah (U of U) School of Medicine.

Price is first author on a paper describing the work, published April 2 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Increasingly high prices for cancer drugs are affecting patient care in the U.S. and the American health care system overall, say the authors of a special article published online in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

Named after nutrition pioneer Weston A. Price, DDS, author of Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, the Washington, DC - based Foundation publishes a quarterly journal for its 15,000 members, supports 600 local chapters worldwide and hosts a yearly international conference.

Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt was published early, her second novel after Strangers on a Train, under a pseudonym; it told the story of a passionate romance between two women, a subject that, of course, could get the author into trouble back in 1952.

Just in the past year, U. Penn's Angela Duckworth authored the blockbuster Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance; Morehouse's Marc Lamont Hill published Nobody: Causalities of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond; and Sara Goldrick - Rab made it onto the late - night talk shows with her timely Paying the Price.

Something that is important to keep in mind as a self - published author — and therefore, a one - person publishing «company — is the matter of how to price your book.

I generally advise authors to avoid the Author Solutions self - publishing services (iUnverse, Xlibris, Trafford, AuthorHouse, BookTango, and the self - pub services Author Solutions runs for major publishers, including Thomas Nelson's WestBow Press and Hay House's Balboa Press), since I've received many complaints about quality, price, and high - pressure sales tactics.

Like self - publishing services, author mills tend to exclusively rely on digital technology, to have wholesale and online distribution only, and to impose high cover prices.

The only pieces you must include when publishing on IngramSpark or other platforms are: cover image, trim size, price, description, author bio, keywords, and categories.

Independent authors took advantage of a system stacked against authors, priced their books lower to undercut the traditionally published competition, and upset the apple cart.

Wouldn't you rather publish a book with Outskirts Press, where the sixth clause in our author - friendly contract is: «AUTHORS SET THEIR OWN RETAIL PRICE to any price ending in.95 cents, provided the Retail Price exceeds the Wholesaler's Price.&rPRICE to any price ending in.95 cents, provided the Retail Price exceeds the Wholesaler's Price.&rPRICE to any price ending in.95 cents, provided the Retail Price exceeds the Wholesaler's Price.&rprice ending in.95 cents, provided the Retail Price exceeds the Wholesaler's Price.&rprice ending in.95 cents, provided the Retail Price exceeds the Wholesaler's Price.&rPrice exceeds the Wholesaler's Price.&rPrice exceeds the Wholesaler's Price.&rPrice.&rPrice.»

The Basic Publishing Package is ideal for independently minded authors who need a high - quality book at an affordable price.

But perhaps the best reason is because authors publishing under «higher» packages earn higher royalties and their book copy prices are less expensive.

These authors were willing to pay the price to boast, «I'm a published author.»

Prices climbed and plummeted from week - to - week, self - published authors achieved more than one No. 1 best - selling title and a few from «big six» (and later, «five») publishers clung to the top slot for weeks at a time.

«The online leviathan Amazon says it is attempting to «lower ebook prices»; publishing conglomerate Hachette argues that it is seeking «terms that value appropriately for the years ahead the author's unique role in creating books, and the publisher's role in editing, marketing, and distributing them.»

Amazon allows self - published authors to put books on their platform and earn between 35 % and 70 % of the list price of the book.

He periodically posts about some of the other self - published authors who are following the same path, pricing reasonably and moving thousands of units per month.

Self - published authors will receive guidance on whether or not to enroll in KDP Select and how to use pricing / discounting as a strategic tool.

The fact that Amazon doesn't care what price you set as long as they get the lowest price tells you as a self - publishing author everything you need to know about Amazon's business model and how Amazon makes money.

And that higher priced books are written by professional, traditionally published authors.

There are also dozens of «self - publishing» companies that do not represent themselves or their services in a clear or honest light, and after signing with these companies, many authors pay the price of poor design, distribution, customer support, and exposure.

I was educating each new client about things like marketing, branding, author websites, pricing... everything else publishing related, and spending too much time answering the same questions.

Amazon has also launched Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) for India that will enable independent authors to make their books available for Kindle devices and apps, and set pricing in Indian Rupees.

After the publishing, editing, marketing, art dept, and shuffleboard teams, as well as the author's agent, all get their cuts, the author only makes 2 % to 12.5 % of the list price.

An author fortunate enough to have a book acquired and published by a large traditional publisher will usually be required to sign an agreement that gives the publisher final say over a wide variety of issues include title, format, cover design, word count, price, release date, marketing, sales, distribution, etc..

The «big six» publishers (Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin Group, HarperCollins, Random House, and Simon & Schuster) are protecting their assets amidst declining author rates, fraught ebook pricing negotiations, fear of piracy, and the increase of self - publishing.

Because the author never deals directly with the POD company or knows where the books are being printed, they remain unaware of the difference between the actual fees charged by the POD company and what the self - publishing company says is the printing charge, distribution fee, and the author royalty.As with any other product, the greater the number of middlemen between the manufacturer and the consumer, the greater the price paid by the consumer.

As authors and business owners, self - publishers need to toe that line between acquiring new readers while also maintaining a high perceived value for their books — so Midnight Publishing cautions against pricing a book that low unless it's for a limited time and coincides with another type of discount or special, like Amazon's Kindle Countdown Deals.

Let trade publishers keep artificially high prices, and discourage would - be authors by shaming them into thinking self publishing is as low as eating out of a garbage can.

Major publishing houses were reneging on deals with already signed authors; changing royalty payments from a percentage of the retail price to «net» of what was received.

Self - publishing has not only democratized publishing, it has opened up the opportunity for authors to publish at low or no cost, own all the rights, control the pricing and timetable for publishing, and get their books listed for sale and distribution on major outlets and platforms — e.g. Amazon, kindle, nook, other e-readers, Google and more.

This means that our authors are entirely free as regards to their content, layout and rights as well as the choice of their books» sales price and the option to publish immediately.

And how many authors will read this, understand it all, still go after that big publishing contract and THEN complain that they «priced my baby too hjgh».

True, some self - published books do climb the bestseller lists because of the low price; several self - pubbed authors have been snatched up by the big houses.

Since distributors and stores only impose the most basic quality controls, a lot of self - published books suffer from lack of sales because the author simply didn't deliver at a level readers expect for the price.

Authors have no control what so ever over prices (not the ones with publishing houses.

Even self - published authors have found that different platforms have different pricing requirements in different markets.

In addition, publishers (or self - published authors) also are only receiving about 50 % of the retail price of the book anyway because Amazon takes its cut.