On the other hand, I DO like Smashword's ability to let you set a book as «
reader sets price» on direct Smashwords sales if you want.
Of the non-Amazon sites, Smashword's currently my second favorite just because of the «
Reader Sets Price» thing and because they finally did actually set up letting you deploy your own EPUB.
This is for anyone who's acquired any of my works for free (say, via promotion on KDP, or via
Reader Sets Price on Smashwords), and who might want to pay me after the fact.
Unlike Amazon, Smashwords allows for free content,
readers set the price (with a note that Barnes & Noble no longer accepts books with this option), or with a price set from a minimum of 0.99 cents or up.
CrowdPricing is Scribl's automated pricing system where
readers set the prices based on their buying preferences for similar content.
Not exact matches
Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer's
price meanwhile has been
set at # 34.99 — the same
price the NFC
reader bundle costs.
Setting a low
price could help you draw in
readers who are just browsing and came across your book.
They're doing this by: — not listing Hachette titles —
setting Hatchette title
prices at (sometimes extraordinarily) high
price points to discourage
readers from buying them —
setting shipping dates for already - available Hachette books at 3 - 5 weeks out, instead of making them immediately available — suggesting other books when
readers search for Hachette titles
But being able to
set a lower
price also means that authors can attract new
readers, who might be more willing to take a risk on an untried author, if the audiobook costs only a few dollars.»
If you sell your book for $ 10 and
set a 50 % discount, Amazon might actually sell it for $ 8 giving
readers the impression that it has been marked down in
price, which can help with sales.
I was not so much turned off by the fact that many of them targeted a $ 200
price point for a barebones wifi
reader, because an American distributor will quickly
set them right in their expectations by laying out the current
pricing in the market for them.
Hachette will have responsibility for
setting consumer
prices of its ebooks, and will also benefit from better terms when it delivers lower
prices for
readers.
While the new PocketBook ebook
readers are getting
set to launch next month, the
prices for the PocketBook 360 and PocketBook 301 have been reduced yet again.
Send out requests to bloggers and podcasters every month; reduce the
price of your book and notify bargain book sites;
set up a social media schedule where you tweet and post excerpts from your book on Facebook; answer
reader Q&A s.
Then you
set a
price and determine whether or not a
reader can see a portion of your book.
Since I wanted as many
readers as possible to read this latest book, I
set my Kindle retail
price at the minimum of $ 0.99 and as a result, the 30 % royalty option was selected for me.
If you haven't
set up an advance
readers» group, you can still benefit from early buys and reviews by
pricing your book lower for the first couple of days (and announcing it in your regular mailing list) or putting your book on Amazon pre-order.
That's according to Nikkei, which today reports that Amazon is
set to bring its popular line of ebook
readers to the country as soon as April, with
pricing believed to come in at less than 20,000 yen ($ 260).
Amazon will only be agents, and the publishers will
set the
price readers pay.
Once my content was created, I enabled the Cloud
Reader, then
set my
price.
Macmillan on a blog post explained the agency model as thus; The «retail model» of selling e-books (publishers sell to retailers, who then sell to
readers at a
price that the retailer determines) to the «agency model» (publishers
set the
price, and retailers take a commission on the sale to
readers).
The BitLit system then reads the spines and determines which books are available to the
reader, either free or for a discounted
price, as
set by the publisher.
Set prices that make sense and create more
readers.
Five years ago, just after ebooks took off, the largest traditional publishers
set their ebook
prices high so that
readers would buy the paper editions.
«Hachette will have responsibility for
setting consumer
prices of its e-books, and will also benefit from better terms when it delivers lower
prices for
readers,» the companies said in a joint statement.
The market (aka
readers) will
set its own
price.
Set up your BookShop ™ page and sell directly to your
readers and earn 85 % of your eBook retail
price.
Such a low
price could
set a new expectation in
readers» minds about how much books are worth and put enormous pressure on traditional brick - and - mortar booksellers selling print books at considerably higher
prices.
Other authors
set a very low
price to maximize sales volume for the purpose of attracting
readers to their other books or products.
And also
setting prices that allow a book to have a value to a
reader and make the writer some money at the same time.
BookBaby lets authors
set book
prices, and makes its money by charging $ 99 for digital conversion and distribution through Apple iBookstore, Barnes & Noble.com, Sony's
Reader Store, and Amazon.com.
The genre you write in, the style you write with, the people you know, the time you have to spend on marketing, the appetite of
readers, the
price you
set, the design of your cover... I could go on and on listing factors that play into how well your book sells.
Publishers, and some authors, are still caught up in the mind -
set of the 1980s — money, elasticity of demand, making
readers wait, trying to get the most money out of
readers, treating books like a scarce commodity, siphoning off 90 % of the
price to middle - men.
This is our way to say a big «THANK YOU» to our
readers for downloading this box
set.For a limited time only, you can get this boxed
set for just $ 4.99 (92 % off regular
price).
While it remains an open debate among authors which
price point entry should be the most effective strategy to show
readers how much the book is worth,
readers are torn between canceling the preorders and waiting patiently for discounts by buying whatever
price the book is
set.
Let
Readers Decide: The
price will be
set to the default $ 4.95 at the distributors since none of them supports this option; however, you can customize your
price in each distributor through Dashboard
settings.
Besides annoying any
reader who purchases from Amazon only to discover he / she could have got it much cheaper elsewhere, Amazon doesn't even give authors a cut of the extra, from what I can tell — they keep it all and you get the same royalty amount as if the book had been purchased at the lower
price you
set.
•
Set promo
price: To entice your
readers to buy your books, you can specify how long you will discount your book.
But for authors,
setting the right
price can generate or decrease sales if they have taken their
reader's feedback into consideration.
By showing
readers that they have alternatives to traditionally published books by allowing authors and small presses to offer their work at
prices they, the author or small press
sets?
In a previous blog post, we briefly looked at
price to see if the
price you
set your books at is helping you to attract
readers or if it repels them.
The
price that you
set should be comparable to other books in the same genre
readers are paying for in the marketplace.
Conclusion There's a lot to like about the Sony
Reader Wi - Fi PRS - T1, and we're happy to report that Sony's finally put its best foot forward with a compact, lightweight, and attractively designed e-
reader that has a solid feature
set and pretty competitive
price tag.
Priced at $ 3.99, it's not the bargain
price of a Book Bub boxed
set, but it's making me money while getting a number of my books into
readers» hands, and I like where it's going.
- Define your book's main / secondary genre - Research the top 10 books / authors in your main genre (Amazon page,
pricing, # of likes, tags, categories, reviews, covers, book description, websites, social media activity / presence)- Develop a positioning statement and messages that will speak to
readers of this genre but also differentiate your book - Design book cover keeping in mind what is selling in your genre and how you have positioned your book - Begin building social media presence (website, blog, FB fan page, twitter, pinterest, tumblr, slideshare, author profiles)- Decide on book formats (ebook, print, enhanced e-book) and distribution channels -
Set the books
price competitively, relative to the competition - Create the book launch plan and budget
The idea is to create a «funnel book» that is shorter than a full -
priced book but still provides most of the same
reader experiences: The same major recurring characters, similar
setting and atmosphere (if these are consistent), and the same kind of emotional charge.
Finding Claire Fletcher by Lisa Regan 4.8 stars — 59 Reviews Kindle
Price: $ 3.99 Text - to - Speech and Lending: Enabled Here's the
set - up: «
Readers should drop what they're reading and pick up a copy of Finding Claire Fletcher.»
Be Good by Dakota Madison 30 Rave Reviews Kindle
Price: $ 2.99 Or currently FREE for Amazon Prime Members Via the Kindle Lending Library Text - to - Speech and Lending: Enabled Here's the
set - up: This NEW ADULT ROMANCE contains language and content indented for adult
readers (18 +).
CrowdPricing uses powerful new algorithms and software to determine
reader preferences and
set the fairest possible
price for every ebook and audiobook.
«Storybundle has an interesting business model that allows
readers to
set their own
pricing...» - Forbes