Sentences with phrase «retail cost of these books»

Numbers such as «$ 6 million in 2012» have been hinted at for future pots, but — again — this is an arbitrary number seemingly unattached to other factors: downloads, rankings, retail cost of the book, anything.

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In fact, Book in a Box is currently piloting a remote book - writing class, which will retail for half of what the standard model coBook in a Box is currently piloting a remote book - writing class, which will retail for half of what the standard model cobook - writing class, which will retail for half of what the standard model costs.

Woolworths» bottom line net profit rebounded to $ 1.53 billion compared with a loss of $ 1.23 billion in 2016, when the retailer booked $ 4 billion in pre-tax asset impairments and restructuring costs on Big W and the now defunct Masters home improvement business.

Author compensation for subsidiary rights is essentially that Dymocks gets NO LESS than 20 % of what they call the Cost Price (which, for books, is basically defined as 50 % of the retail price, so an author gets NO MORE than 40 %).

The reality is that book retail has been steadily deteriorating over the years and publishers themselves have been compromised by decades of cost - cutting.

The price of books is high, because the cost of making and distributing books is high, especially when the retailers are getting a 50 - 60 % discount from the publishers.

If the retail price of your book is $ 15, then the wholesale cost is roughly $ 6.75 (55 %).

When your book is complete, every penny of revenue is yours, forever (other than printing costs and unavoidable retailer discounts).

An author's cost to purchase his or her own book from the self - publishing company should be a fixed price based upon format and page count, not a discount from the retail price of the book.

A higher unit cost means lower profits — unless, of course, you price the book higher than what standard retail norms would dictate.

$ 20,000 in sales - printing cost $ 3,000 = a net profit of $ 17,000 in this publisher's subsequent year (85 % of the book's retail value).

Bookstore or author is responsible for cost of shipping; BookLogix will not cover the cost of shipping books to retailers / bookstores.

I'll buy print books from Booktopia because of the reduced postage and waiting time, but I refuse to buy anything from bricks and mortar retailers because the cost of even a bog ordinary paperback is so high.

Because packaging costs to produce the book have already been paid, he would only subtract the cost of book printing from the retail price.

We make your book available through a huge network of online retailers and then print each book to order at no cost to you.

Amid rising costs and the growing popularity of internet book retailers in Singapore, a number of stores have closed.

a cell phone screen, a tablet screen, a computer screen, a Big Screen TV, etc, etc, watching, DVD's, Blu - Rays, YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, ROKU, Apple TV, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Vine, Pinterest, etc, etc...... when you lose that many potential book readers to watching you can't sustain a high cost physical retail book chain with all that overhead particularly when that retail space is overbuilt in declining sections of a city.

What you leave out of your litany of costs, Jay, is that more than half of the cover price of the book goes to the middlemen — the distributor and / or retailer — * not * the publishers or editors or printers or authors.

The currency - price relationship has created a situation where Canadian retailers can very easily source books outside of Canada at lower cost.

Otherwise, I'd have to order from a non-Amazon US / UK retailer and pay high shipping costs (if they ship overseas at all — some of them don't) or special order a book at the bookstore, which is a hassle particularly for small press titles.

Whereas in traditional publishing the first book costs hundreds of thousands because there's a whole print run, and then on every single book there are margins for the retailer, distribution, publisher, agent, and so on — and if the book doesn't sell out, there are further transport, warehouse, and pulping costs.

The profit of a book is determined by the following calculation: Retail price — trade discount — production cost = profit.

Even though the authors and the publishers will still make their same commission and even though the supremely discounted price on ebooks has translated into tens of thousands of book sales for authors and fiction's digital sales are up by 188 % for the first half of the year, authors are speaking out against having their ebooks discounted at the retailers» cost.

There is still a distribution cost associated with an ebook if a publisher is selling through a retailer like Amazon and it is often more than the cost of distribution of a physical book.

Amazon routinely sells many types of books below cost in order to drive less well capitalized retailers — like Borders — out of business.

And if you're wondering if a vending machine book costs less than the real deal (OK, OK, I should put my snark in check; the machines are really nifty - looking, supposedly they cut down on CO2 emissions, plus it would be great to gain access to out - of - print books)... The Associated Press reported recently that EBM books will have a «recommended sales price of $ 8 per copy, although the final decision will be left to each retailer.»

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The average price of an e-book is $ 6.65, whereas a new hardcover book will cost on average of $ 18.41 and paperbacks retail for $ 10.39.

Certainly, physical books still have to be shipped to various retailers, but even that is a much faster and more cost effective process than it was in the early days of large - scale publishing.

Titles that normally retail for $ 17 now cost only $ 9.99, but some of the more mainstream books like Princess Diaries by Carrie Fisher or Cross the line by James Patterson have not been marked down.

You may download the sample of this book at no cost from any major retailer like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple ibooks, Google Play, Scribd or Kobo by going here.

This is why we suggest that you use a multiple of at least 2.2 times the cost of printing your book when setting your book retail selling price.

A hike of royalty rates to 85 percent from 70 % (after retailers» costs), bringing the platform in line with the standing Smashwords offer, plus Book Country's distribution includes Amazon.

For retail outlets like Amazon and Barnes & Noble, it is too easy to upload your books yourself and cut out the cost of a middleman.

The cost per book for PoD is also going down, a few years ago, the PoD printing cost was higher than the retail cost of an offset print book, then it dropped so it was lower than the retail cost of a similar sized book, but without sufficient margin to allow you to sell to bookstores at 50 % list price (let alone deal with the returns).

The First Book Marketplace offers books, school supplies, basic needs items, computers and tablets, and games at a fraction of the retail cost.

The T100 retails for $ 349 and an unlocked Zenfone 5s selsl for around $ 199, which suggests that the Transformer Book V will cost less than the equivalent of $ 500 U.S.

If the retailer is not feeling the pressure of competition (ie they've put all their competitors out of business by selling books below cost in the past), the retailer can now charge $ 14.00 and earn a nice spread of $ 7.00 at the consumer's expense.

This access is also largely without upfront costs, making it straightforward for any author to begin selling their book at Amazon, the No. 1 retailer of books in both print and digital format.

The 25 % royalty he got applies to books sold using a wholesale - retail model, so his percentage was out of the wholesale cost booksellers paid to publishers.

Many libraries say they pay $ 12 to $ 15 for a single license, although others say the licenses can mirror the retail cost of a printed book, often $ 25 or more for a new popular work.

To date, the key benefits we could offer to authors of books published through our company were quality of design, access to distribution, access to retail and other sales channels and of course we take on the risk of publishing costs and pay royalties to the author removing the dangers that self published authors have of not receiving payment for the books other sell on their behalf.

In my case, my book (all formats) has NO geographic restrictions and is shown as such on the Nielsens Book Data database and so this restriction is costing me sales to english speakers in continental Europe (especially Spain where the book is based and where it is being marketed to the English speaking community) and I question the ability of third party publishers to force retailers to restrict the sale of my e-book to people in the UK — restraint of trade comes to mbook (all formats) has NO geographic restrictions and is shown as such on the Nielsens Book Data database and so this restriction is costing me sales to english speakers in continental Europe (especially Spain where the book is based and where it is being marketed to the English speaking community) and I question the ability of third party publishers to force retailers to restrict the sale of my e-book to people in the UK — restraint of trade comes to mBook Data database and so this restriction is costing me sales to english speakers in continental Europe (especially Spain where the book is based and where it is being marketed to the English speaking community) and I question the ability of third party publishers to force retailers to restrict the sale of my e-book to people in the UK — restraint of trade comes to mbook is based and where it is being marketed to the English speaking community) and I question the ability of third party publishers to force retailers to restrict the sale of my e-book to people in the UK — restraint of trade comes to mbook to people in the UK — restraint of trade comes to mind.

Book Pricing: The Suggested Retail Price («SRP») of your print book, determined by trim size, page count, and interior format (black and white versus color), distribution costs and your royalty percentBook Pricing: The Suggested Retail Price («SRP») of your print book, determined by trim size, page count, and interior format (black and white versus color), distribution costs and your royalty percentbook, determined by trim size, page count, and interior format (black and white versus color), distribution costs and your royalty percentage.

The Seattle - based online retail titan also announced a MatchBook service that gives Kindle book buyers the option of getting low - cost digital versions of ink - and - paper Kindle editions they have purchased.

Although one of the PGW speakers explained that, in order to sign with a distributor and receive all these terrific services, you would have to give them exclusive rights to market your books to retail outlets, they also sidestepped questions of exactly what this glorious treatment might cost.

I do think you have a problem with your plan, though, because the cost of printing your book via POD is going be at least $ 7.00, and since there's a real limit to what readers will pay for fiction, this alone will eliminate virtually all your profit after you discount the book for retail.

If you're print - on - demand, the printing cost will be deducted from your retail price, meaning your book royalties comes from the retail price minus the printing costs and wholesale discount (usually about 55 % of the retail price).

With regards to the relative production price of an ebook vs a physical book it is not just the physical manufacture and shipping that plays in, it is also the relative cost of the retail vs e-retail system.

Pages cost a percentage of the retail (not library) price of each book.