Sentences with phrase «rate than print books»

The precede also flags the «ebook - as - digital - service» problem in which some places tax ebooks at a higher rate than print books as software - like services, «thus stunting the growth of the ebook market,» IPA writes, «especially in smaller language markets.

Later, GoodEReader.com reported on the taxation of ebooks in Germany in which ebooks are taxed at a higher rate than print books as the... [Read more...]

E-book readers go back and buy more books at a higher rate than print book buyers.

Not exact matches

But that's nothing compared to the head - scratching that the EU's highest court has caused when they upheld the ruling this week that ebooks were not books, and therefore would be taxed at a higher VAT rate than their print counterparts.

So assuming those are pro rates for getting your book edited, covered, formatted, and distributed as ebook and print on demand, the questions you should ask yourself is IF a publisher is asking for $ 800 up front from you are: — is the percentage they take of your work going to equal more than that other $ 800?

Finally, once you factor in the wildly varying rates of value added tax (VAT)- — which are typically much higher on e-books (which are considered software) than print books (which are not)- — then you have even more of an emerging quagmire.

Print sales have evened out in 2017 and unit sales of books increased by a paltry 1.9 % last year, which is slightly less than annual growth rates of 3 % posted between 2013 to 2016.

GoodEReader.com reported earlier this year on the current state of disarray regarding ebook taxation internationally, specifically in Germany, where ebooks are taxed at more than double the rate of printed books because they are classified as software downloads.

At the moment, member states have the option to tax printed books, newspapers and publications at a reduced rate (minimum 5 %) and some member states were granted the applications of VAT rates lower than 5 % (super-reduced rates) including exemptions with a deductions right of VAT at the preceding stage (so called zero rates) to certain printed publications.

It demonstrates that at present royalty rates, publishers benefit from higher margins on ebooks while authors receive less income than on the sale of a printed book.

Although sales of print books are less profitable than ebook sales, authors receive a much higher royalty rate from print (which may explain some of their pique at Amazon's tactics), and print bookstores are an effective means of helping readers discover new books.

Logue also pointed to a 2016 Pew Research Center study, which reported that 65 percent of Americans read a print book in the previous year, more than double the rate for e-books and quadruple the rate for audiobooks.