Sentences with phrase «than an ebook pays»

To get more in royalties than an ebook pays at $ 9.99, its price has to be raised to above $ 27.

Not exact matches

I was thinking about the potential of ebooks, and how to make books more interactive, the different types of books you could produce, but then the idea that you could pay as you read — well, that was far more interesting than everything else.

«KindleUnlimited indie page reads (at a current run rate of $ 180M + / yr) are now paying Amazon - exclusive indie authors far more total dollars than «wide» indie authors are earning from their sales at all non-Amazon ebook retailers combined (a total run rate of roughly $ 50M / yr in non-Amazon indie author earnings).»

You can provide the loser with an ebook in any format you wish, from free to paid, but remembering that simply using his email address to «gift» him the ebook from Amazon will cost you less than the price of your print book and will increase your ebook ranking.

Two weeks is more than enough time to read an ebook and return it without paying the author a penny.

This details matters because in July of last year Amazon started paying authors and publishers with ebooks in Kindle Unlimited by the number of pages read, rather than the number of times an ebook is borrowed.

I would pay the same for an ebook as a paperback, but I resent having to pay more for the ebook than the paperback.

And if it becomes available, the new ebook is priced higher than the pbook you already purchased, why should you pay (the full price) again?

Quote ««KindleUnlimited indie page reads (at a current run rate of $ 180M + / yr) are now paying Amazon - exclusive indie authors far more total dollars than «wide» indie authors are earning from their sales at all non-Amazon ebook retailers combined (a total run rate of roughly $ 50M / yr in non-Amazon indie author earnings).

Why would someone pay as much if not more for an ebook that it has been made clear on more than on occasion that you don't actually own than you would for an actual book.

A Sōtō Zen...») are sufficient to demonstrate why we need to pay closer attention to more than just the format of an ebook.

(If you want to create an ebook file, you shouldn't pay more than about R2500, or $ 250, for the conversion.

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow auEbooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow auebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

By sticking to this loss - making practice, to create a perception amongst eBook buyers that they should not have to pay more than $ 9.99 for an eBook, and to thereby, over time, force publishers to drop their retail prices for eBooks.

And I don't think I'd pay more than $ 6.99 for an ebook because I believe they're worth less than a paperback for all the reasons I listed above.

That may change as more so - called digital natives progress into higher education and as ebook reader technology gets better, but for now, 60 % of students would rather pay for a low - cost printed book than use a free digital version.

But what we're paying for is the story and the author's work in putting it together, so while I do think an ebook should be a bit cheaper than the paper version, I don't think it should be dramatically different.

In less than two years, in fact, the market share of paid unit sales between indie (mainly self - publishing, but includes small presses) and Big 5 eBooks has more than inverted.

Step three, top selling authors realize that if Amazon sells half of their books already, and 80 % of their ebooks, and Amazon will pay them triple to five times more than their publishers do, then thay can make more money on Amazon right now.

«If the columns are a couple Google searches away, I don't know what you'd pay somebody to do that, but it's probably less than what it costs me in a transaction fee to sell an ebook.

I have held the line at $ 9.99 since there is so much good stuff out there at that price point or less, but I resent having to pay more than paper at any time for an ebook, and I don't want to read paper when I have my kindle.

If Google eBooks were to open soon it would make getting free and paid ebooks easier than beBooks were to open soon it would make getting free and paid ebooks easier than bebooks easier than before.

I read ebooks that were free or I paid less than $ 2.99 that I felt were worth more!

Anna I understand your frustrations with pirated eBooks but the problem is that current system is not fair to most readers either, because of all the restrictions we don't really own eBooks we bought and despite that we have to pay for them more than for paperbacks.

I think publishers have been trying hard to convince them otherwise, by regularly pricing ebooks as much as or in some cases more than paper editions — so yeah, maybe these extended sales might «undervalue» titles to the extent that they remind people that they've been slowly brainwashed over time to expect to pay the same or more for «products» that are cheaper to produce.

But in general I personally think that $ 5.27 is a perfectly reasonable price for an ebook, and I think most readers EXPECT that an ebook, with no distribution costs or retail middle - man to pay, should be less than a paper book.

Essentially, BookBaby, has found that charging legitimate authors an upfront fee to process and distribute their ebooks may cause some to ultimately opt for one of the sites that makes its profit out of royalties rather than pay an initial investment; however, this same business model means that spam and piracy can be kept to a minimum as get - rich - quick scammers are loathe to shell out the upfront cost.

Obviously, this kept digital reading from taking off initially, as consumers had to pay the same price for the ebook that they would have paid for the print, while paying more than double the tax rate.

I would happily pay even $ 7 for many books, rather than the usual formula of $ 30 or so for a hardback, $ 15 or so for a paperback or ebook (usually only a few percent different.)

It's unfortunate for the writer who has no control over pricing but I'm simply not going to pay more for an ebook than for a hardcopy.

Some readers simply won't pay more than X for an ebook because they don't like the price point; others refuse to pay as little as X for an ebook because of a presumption of quality.

Hence they see no problem paying 260 dollars for a Kindle, but balk at paying more than 9.99 for an ebook.

So why should I have to pay the same price for an ebook that requires vastly less effort than a real book?

Kobo has more than 2 million paid and free titles available through its online store, with new eBooks starting at $ 9.99.

Generally, I won't pay more than $ 7.99 for an ebook.

These provide reliable publication that can cost you much less than you'd pay a vanity publisher (many of the ebook - only options are free) and in addition make your book easy to order online and in bookstores (though again, because of these services» business policies, it's unlikely that you'll have bookstore presence).

I will gladly pay more than $ 10.00 for an ebook, if the price is 20 - 25 % of the discounted hard cover price.

This model allowed Amazon to sell ebooks from the major publishers at what was often a lesser price than Amazon had paid for them, a move the retailer employed to encourage customers to purchase the then - newly introduced Kindle e-readers.

With the average sales tax percentage that a U.S. customer pays reaching 9.64 % in 2010 according to a finding published by Vertex, Inc., and considering that residents in some areas of the country pay an astounding 13.73 %, the savings over the holiday on a device that ranges in price from $ 134 for an e-reader to over $ 500 for a tablet can more than cover a few ebooks.

One of the benefits to these short form ebooks is the need to balance content with paid advertising space is eliminated, allowing the readers to enjoy more in - depth information and offering the author the opportunity to explore his topic more fully than with the current standard for periodicals.

Parents say they pay an average of $ 5.37 per ebook, which is a 33 % discount on what they say they will pay for paper books, but 40 % more than they say they will pay for apps.

I run out of storage for print too, which means I am reading less because I refuse to pay more than 10.00 for an ebook.

Yes, I am a book behind but I refuse to pay more than $ 10 for an ebook.

Just as a single data point, I'll admit that I simply won't pay more than $ 10 for an ebook, no matter how much I like the author.

But I won't pay more for an ebook than for a hardback, and I won't buy hardbacks anymore.

I had an interesting experience this week: I just bought a brand - new hardcover novel for less than I would have paid for the ebook.

Add to that the problems caused by charging ridiculously high ebook prices and getting paid less money for those high - priced ebooks than if the books were properly priced, and the traditionally published writers, who receive 25 % of net ebook royalties, are really losing money here.

Many folks take a DIY approach to this today, and there are ample libraries of eBook files out there, but when we really have figured out the business of publishing knowledge rather than simply text, there will be new, as - yet unrecognized but forehead - slapping obvious enhancements to text that most people will pay for instead of doing it themselves.

But I'm like you Kait in that I won't pay more for an ebook than I would for a paperback.

Given that there is no shortage of free and inexpensive author - published ebooks, a pay - to - read model, while in some ways a novelty, may be more than readers are willing to accept.