Sentences with phrase «want ebooks priced»

Most consumers — and some authors — want ebooks priced MUCH lower than print books.

Didn't you degrade Hachette for wanting ebooks priced higher than 9.99?

They want the ebook price for a title to be higher than the print book.

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Title: Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World: Combining Principles and Profit to Create the World We Want Authors: Jay Conrad Levinson (1933 — 2013), Shel Horowitz Contributing writers: Cynthia Kersey (Unstoppable), Frances Moore Lappé (Diet for a Small Planet), Ken McArthur (The Impact Factor), Yanik Silver (Evolved Enterprise) Publisher: Morgan James Pub date: April 19, 2016 • Price: $ 24.95 ISBN: 978 -1-63047-658-8 (paperback); 978 -1-63047-659-5 (eBook)

Summary: Title: Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World: Combining Principles and Profit to Create the World We Want Authors: Jay Conrad Levinson, Shel Horowitz Contributing writers: Cynthia Kersey, Frances Moore Lappé, Ken McArthur, Yanik Silver Publisher: Morgan James Pub date: April 19, 2016 ISBN: 978 -1-63047-658-8 (paperback); 978 -1-63047-659-5 (eBook) Price: $ 24.95 Contact: Shel Horowitz, 413-586-2388, or via email

Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World: Combining Principles and Profit to Create the World We Want by Jay Conrad Levinson and Shel Horowitz ($ list price $ 24.95) can be ordered with the ISBNs 978 -1-63047-658-8 (paperback); 978 -1-63047-659-5 (eBook), or directly from the author by visiting http://goingbeyondsustainability.com/guerrilla-marketing-to-heal-the-world/

Here's my thinking in a nutshell: Let the big publishers collude to keep ebook prices high all they want.

Amazon refuses to adopt the agency model, instead wanting to sell ebooks at a fixed maximum price.

For authors who want to sell eBooks and downloads, we've added a fixed $ 1.49 base price to cover our credit card processing and hosting expenses.

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At the peak of the nastiness over the summer, when Amazon was slowing shipments of some Hachette books and removing presale buttons on others, and after Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert eviscerated the retail giant in a popular segment on his show, Amazon made the very rare move of going public with what it wanted from Hachette — namely, $ 9.99 pricing on most ebooks.

This, of course, presumes that publishers * want * to sell more ebooks; a presumption clearly refuted by their actions in raising prices.

He wants a great read at a great price, and as ebook sales and retailers» profits have demonstrated, he wants it relatively conveniently.

I will also honor the sale price for anyone who wants to buy the ebook directly from me in the format of their choice!

Before the arrival of the «agency pricing» model that Apple negotiated with ebook publishers — which allowed the publishers to decide what price Apple would charge for their books on the iPad — Amazon had deals that paid a specific wholesale price to publishers for a certain number of copies, and then it was able to charge whatever it wanted for the books in the Kindle store.

(look up and verify) Scoff if you want, but I believe the big war machine is slowly churning to catch up with the times, as evidenced by the number of traditionally published books in Bookbub and the lower ebook prices of traditional titles.

Update: You may also want to read my post on Ebook Pricing Strategies for a First or Stand - Alone Novel.

If you want to change that price expectation, you have to make ebooks clearly as valuable as print, just in different ways.

In a similar way, Amazon jump - started the ebook market with the Kindle and wanted to keep prices low in order to stimulate the market — and to gain and keep control over as much of the supply chain as possible so that it could drive sales of Kindles and related devices.

The royalties (or whatever you want to call it, but again I'm using royalty because that's the generally accepted term) on ebooks sold in Japan, India, Brazil, and Mexico is 35 %, unless you're in KDP Select, at which point you get 70 % as long as it meets the price requirements.

We always make sure our ebook prices are less than our print prices But because the sales are now spread between print and digital the costs can't be that dramatically different because otherwise we would end up with much less revenue... unless you want to argue if the book were 4.99 we'd possibly sell a lot more ebooks.

If you want to price your ebooks higher, stop selling them on Amazon.com, and simply sell them using other available distribution channels at the price you wish to sell them.

I myself have seen this if a book's in transition from, say, trade or hardcover to mass market and the ebook price hasn't been adjusted yet; I had it happen when a Tanya Huff book I wanted made the jump from hardcover to mass market.

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This is one reason paper is so valuable to publishers and they don't want eBooks to undercut it on price.

What we should be wanting is more widespread adoption of ebooks in general and getting away from the agency model and artificially high prices can do that.

So I think Hachette, even with its overhead, could manage the extra cost of paying 100 % the price of ebooks for the time of negociations - provided Hachette does not want the negociations to last until 2015, as it seems the case.

They want to force the price of ebooks to be artificially high.

For authors who want to sell and collect creator royalties on eBooks, we've added a $ 0.99 base price to cover our credit card processing and hosting expenses.

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For authors who want to sell and collect creator royalties on eBooks, pricing must include $ 0.99 base price to cover our credit card processing and hosting expenses.

And Macmillan was on a fool's journey anyway because they wanted to set ebook prices for $ 15.

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When / if The Spanners Series ebooks start selling well and your fan base has grown sufficiently, you may raise Volume II's price to $ 5.99 during Volume III's Pre-order period, now pushed into spring, 2015, and set the Pre-order price @ $ 2.99 for Volume III, This Is / Is Not the Way I Want Things to Change.

Selling the ridiculously high margin eBook to price sensitive customers is fine, and those who don't want the eBook won't be pirating.

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.

One last fact: Even after the price - fixing issue called «agency pricing» is settled and over, nothing prevents publishers from charging Apple and Amazon and any other ebook channel that comes online between now and forever, whatever price they want for an ebook.

Before delving into today's mess, though, I wanted to note that any analysis or debate about ebook pricing in 2011 happens against the backdrop of skyrocketing ebook sales.

No one wants to pay full price for both the ebooks and audio versions.

The top end of the range prevents authors and publishers from listing their ebooks at overly inflated prices, since Amazon wants to make sure there is enough content available for its millions of Kindle fans, all at an enticing price point.

You also have to set a minimum price of $.99 in the eBook wizard if you want to sell your eBook (this is the base cost / delivery fee).

If getting published traditionally doesn't especially help you to get your books on the shelves of stores (unless you are talented, awesome, hard - working, and lucky enough to be a Jim Butcher), then you've got a legitimate reason to question whether you want to roll the dice with traditional publishers (who absolutely offer many great advantages), or get 70 % royalties on your indie ebooks and get paid 80 % of your print book's list price (minus the cost of POD printing) with your print - on - demand book via Lightning Source and their 20 % short discount option — which gets you right into Amazon.com and other online bookstores, just like the big boys do.

Macmillan wants dictate ebook prices for end customers (in other words, no discounting by resellers) and will treat its resellers as «agents» who get a fixed 30 % of the sale.

In other words, if Hachette wanted to charge $ 15.99 for an ebook, and Amazon marked it down to $ 9.99, Hachette was still paid their cut of the full price of the book.

Until that Netflix For eBooks service pops up, you're going to have to shop around a bit before your purchase if you want to land on the lowest price.

A person at Amazon told me that publishers keep ebook prices high in part because they don't want to jeopardize their relationships with traditional booksellers.

And downward price pressure on ebooks means we ultimately get paid less, which means it's harder for us to make the living we do, which means both our ability and our financial incentives to write the stories readers want to see are compromised.

What was happening was that Amazon was discounting the price of the ebooks, and it may seem like this is something the Big 5 would want to stop, except the markdown was coming off of Amazon's end.

After all, it offers the highest percentage royalty, and eBooks are usually priced lower than print books, which appeals to readers who might not want to drop $ 15 on an author they've never heard of.