While that price point may seem a little high for an unknown author — many self - published authors keep their sales at $ 4.99 or less, with $ 2.99 being a fairly
standard ebook price for indie works — given the argument that the cost of the book is in its initial creation, it makes sense.
Not exact matches
News & Notes Early - bird
pricing on my new
ebook, The REAL FOOD Cleanse, ends TODAY at 10:00 am Central
Standard Time -LSB-...]
On
ebooks, industry
standard is 25 % of NET — the
price HarperCollins gets paid by the retailer, typically about half the cover
price.
What the
standards are on
pricing and some of the «culture» around
eBooks consumption and distribution.
Ever since the rise in popularity of electronic reading, the
standard argument has been that
ebooks cost less to make and do not require additional expense or material to duplicate, therefore, the
price should logically be far less than the
price of a print edition.
I can
price my
ebooks at considerably less than the traditional publishing industry
standard, because I'm not splitting the net with anybody.
So the question is, is an
ebook priced higher than a print book due to Big 5 setting their
ebook prices substantively higher than what was set by the market (okay, fine, by Amazon, mostly) or is it due to Amazon's
standard discounting practices?
This complaint said Apple conspired with major publishing companies to raise the
price of
ebooks above the $ 9.99
standard set by Amazon.
This title marks the first time that GoodEReader is including an
ebook in its Ebook of the Week feature that is not, in fact, free; we were thrilled that Tarr asked to charge his standard price for this title since a portion of the proceeds will go to Keep-A-Breast.org in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness m
ebook in its
Ebook of the Week feature that is not, in fact, free; we were thrilled that Tarr asked to charge his standard price for this title since a portion of the proceeds will go to Keep-A-Breast.org in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness m
Ebook of the Week feature that is not, in fact, free; we were thrilled that Tarr asked to charge his
standard price for this title since a portion of the proceeds will go to Keep-A-Breast.org in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month.
When major publishers came together to fix the
prices of
ebooks to develop a
standard of
pricing, the European Commission and Justice Department smote them for collusion.
As you undoubtly know, it can be quite costly to put together a book, and having to
price the
ebook so low, due to industry
standards, was a little heart breaking for me!
With
EBooks by Design you get two formats for the
price of one — we charge the same
price for the
standard reflowable text option whether we provide one or both formats because 95 % of the work is done as html before splitting the file into the respective formats.
Coincidentally, $ 10 is now Amazon's
standard price for a new
ebook.
In negotiations with the Association of Spanish Literary Agencies (ADAL), the publishers have agreed to
price ebooks at 80 % of a printed books cover
price, with a
standard 25 % royalty rate.
Our
standard eBook conversion
prices are based on a digital file in either Word, PDF, or Html format that is straight text (no tables, indexes or complex formatting etc) only.
The common industry
standard is to have
eBooks priced about 30 percent under the
price of a paperback copy.
We've seen the amazing results of offering free or deeply discounted books, but I'm not sure anyone in the industry is ready to commit to $.99 or $ 2.99 as the
standard price for
ebooks.
With a «
standard» contract (as if there is such a thing), you «earn out» that advance at a rate of 10 % of the
price of a print book, and 25 % of the publisher's net on an
ebook.
Here at
EBooks by Design we offer Kindle conversion, alongside ePub, as a
standard part of our
price package.
The very cheap
ebooks indie authors would offer juxtaposed against the publisher's agency up -
priced (many at $ 14.99) and undiscounted branded books created a market opening that allowed the Kindle audience to sample (aside from the free chapter that is
standard in
ebooks) cheap
ebook authors for peanuts.
I've said this before and I'll say it again: I think it's very likely that if $ 9.99 becomes the upper bound for
pricing on
eBooks, then you are going to find $ 9.99 becomes the
standard price for
eBooks, period, because publishers who lose money up at the top of the
pricing scale will need to recoup that money somewhere else, and the bottom of the
pricing scale is a fine place to do it.
eBOUND hired Castledale to explore and report on
standard pricing policies for English language
ebooks in seven major markets (United States (US), United Kingdom (UK), Australia, France, Germany, Spain and Mexico).
Over the past few years, the
prices of
ebook readers have fallen dramatically while the hardware has improved significantly and premium features have become
standard.
By lowering
prices of its Readers and its
eBook Store content, though, and now by supporting the epub
standard, Sony has proven that it's willing to fight for this market.
But once that model becomes
standard and Amazon is the only
ebook retailer of any import, why wouldn't they start making books findable by keyword search only if you agree to their
pricing of $ 7 and then you get homepage status if you drop to $ 5.
In Germany, if this trend continues, we might see the reverse effect of higher
prices for
eBook to become a new
standard for readers to appreciate and authors to proliferate.