Sentences with phrase «raising book prices»

Why do we need mega-corporations, taking ever - increasing cuts from authors, while steadily raising book prices for readers, acting as gate - keepers, deciding what the rest of us get to read?

On Wednesday, a U.S. judge pronounced Apple guilty of conspiring with publishers to raise book prices — a verdict the company plans on appealing.

They've had to raise book prices.

Were they able to raise book prices above $ 9.99?

Not exact matches

In both situations, Apple had convinced major book publishers to go with an «agency model,» which would let them set their own prices on ebooks (as in raise prices on ebooks).

Raising the price of the book may have an negative effect in your sales if you raise it.

After updating my severance negotiation book, How To Engineer Your Layoff, I raised the price to $ 85 from $ 48.

Some OTAs, such as On The Beach, have admitted to raising prices after a customer booked, requiring the customer to pay more than expected or cancel the trip.

A vivid example was seen on Amazon in 2011 when pricing bots raised the cost of a book, The Making of a Fly, to over $ 23 million.

Oldest trick in the book and they didn't raise the price on it when i didn't buy the car like they said they were going to.

To help raise buyers» awareness of resale value, Kelley Blue Book recently released a list of the 10 new vehicles it expects to retain the highest percentage of their original sticker prices after five years on the road.

When contacted to dealers, they too confirmed that the booking for airbag models have started which raises the price for both models by around Rs. 15,000.

Almost all major publishers moved toward Apple's model, and Amazon was forced to raise prices in order to keep books on its platform.

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However, after five major publishers made an agreement with Apple on ebook pricing that specified other platforms couldn't undersell Apple, Amazon was forced to raise prices, and many books began selling for $ 14.99.

To raise some money, Duane has slashed prices by 50 % on Ebooks Direct, the ebook store she runs for the books to which she and her husband have the ebook rights.

If you raise the price of your book before the end of the promo period — the day that your book is posted — we will not promote any of your books in the future.

You can rank # 1 as a free book but once you raise the price, it counts for nothing.

Amazon.com is letting two more major publishers raise prices of electronic books for Kindle readers in deals struck just days before Apple releases rival iPad computer tablets, the Wall Street Journal reported.

After a weekend of brinksmanship, Amazon.com on Sunday surrendered to a publisher and agreed to raise prices on some electronic books.

I have no way to know for certain, but I suspect I am losing money on this deal, at least with the omnibus priced at $ 7.99 (I may raise the price down the line, especially if I ever «un-free» the first book).

I've got a thousand or more copies of that book in my warehouse that I have to sell through before I can do another print run — and I need to decide if sales are strong enough to warrant another thousand or more books, or if I need to go to a small digital print run, in which case, I might need to raise the price (because small print runs cost more per unit than large ones, and I have to offer my distributor a 65 % discount as per our contract).

What you can do is to raise the price of the book in Kindle Store US only after there are no or little fees in other territories.

They also say they have raised the price on their books.

Amazon Marketing Services is effective to raise visibility of a book during a price drop without necessarily spending a lot of money.

I think, that even if you decided to raise prices of your books for US customers, keep them low for readers from abroad.

One of the important topics to raise is how to price books for international customers.

Apple was accused with working with five major book publishers — Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster — to raise the price of new releases and bestsellers from the $ 9.99 price limit Amazon established, to between $ 12.99 and $ 14.99.

The author in question was panicking because she had checked her listing, and Amazon had raised her price $ 10, and so much for Amazon being a friend to the little guy and she was going to pull all her books and only sell them through her website...

Publishers do these price pulses in order to raise the visibility of a book before jacking up the price again.

I'm not generally a fan of launching 2nd, 3rd, 4th books at a discount (the exception to this is romance, where low pricing for the length of a series may be your strategy, then raise the price on backlist).

After that, raise the price to $ 3.99 (it helps your book stand out and converts better than $ 2.99 — at least in my experience) and Amazon's algorithms will kick in and Amazon will actually start to promote your book for you.

Amazon allows you to offer your book for free before raising the price.

In this economy why raise the prices, particularly for e-books, which DUH - is takes nothing to be published vs. regular books.

This tax is actually being raised up to 15 % by the end of the year, so this is a savvy move to save money and offer books at low prices.

Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other content distribution companies, which sell e-books are raising their average price, per book from $ 10.00 to $ 15.00.

With the incredible tools available through digital publishing, the cost to purchase and give away the ebook for the individuals who fund raised could have been negligible compared to the cost of a print edition (note: unfortunately, the publisher has set the ebook edition price of this title at $ 9.99, higher than the $ 8.52 per print copy that the protest organizers spent through Rediscovered Books).

Amazon has announced that they have raised the prices for free two day shipping to $ 49 and $ 25 for books.

IIRC, to add to the entertainment Kris Rusch mentioned late last year that not only did tradpubbers raise the price of their ebooks, but Amazon discounted the print versions of the same books to LESS than the cost of the newly - raised tradpub ebook prices.

I've spoken to several indie authors who have tried raising the price on their books only to see an immediate drop off in sales.

Day 1: publish; Days 1 - 5: get as many reviews as possible; Day 2: contact all the book promo sites and schedule promotions; Days 6 - 10: stack reviews on each day including email your list; Days 11 or 12: raise the book's price.

Once engaged the publisher can raise the price as word - of - mouth reaches people who are willing to spend a few extra dollars to buy a book that they now have heard from friends is a good read.

The Big 5 raised their ebook prices, created an artificial resurgence in print sales of their books, and thought they proved print - is - not - dead.

Authors have found that dropping the price of their books to $ 0, at least for a short time, leads to dramatically better sales when they do raise the price.

Dropping the price of your eBook can help raise your sales rank and visibility, while, at the same time, promoting other books you've written.

just raised prices in anticipation of my second book.

You can raise the price up to $ 3.99, but you'll be sacrificing sales (I like to leave it cheap until I have 100 reviews — then make a print book and «updated edition»).

Add that it was the WSJ that reported he had asked the publishers to raise the prices and that he is interested in selling hardware and not so interested in the books relative to a bookstore.

But while you see them as the victim, I see you as a tool of Macmillan, used to try to persuade us that Macmillan is RAISING PRICES on books to benefit us.

-LSB-...] As anyone who follows digital publishing industry can tell you, publishers have been raising their ebook prices over the past several years to the point that print books are often now cheaper than ebooks.