Sentences with phrase «way authors price»

Therefore they should also influence the way authors price their books.

Not exact matches

Despite Disney's apparent lack of concern about the potential to scare off remotely budget - conscious vacationers, Frommer.com's Jason Cochran, author of Frommer's Easy Guide to Walt Disney World and Orlando, says that the theme park giant is «playing a dangerous game» not only with the latest price hikes, but with an array of policies that all but force guests to book multi-day vacations (because the per - day costs are astronomical if the visit is short) and to plan every latest detail of one's visit far in advance (because that's the way to get the most out of one's trip).

Books have always been overpriced, and publishing companies and individual authors who want to control the price of books had better figure out a new way to make money... and quick.

An indie author considering this should understand their rationale for how they price their book, have reason to believe this will accomplish what they're hoping for, and a way to measure whether or not it is working.

If you're looking for ways to increase your book / author rank and generate reviews, This graph explains why $ 0.99 is the best price to reach new readers, with $ 1.99 not far behind:

(Distribution cost arguments should be discussed between the author and the publisher, not as much as a way to calculate e-book prices.)

(I've notice that authors are very good at assuming their own beliefs are those of the market in general; real - world testing is, of course, a more logical way to make pricing decisions.)

Our partnership with Findaway Voices gives authors a way to package shorter works, particularly serialized short stories, non-fiction articles, or novellas, and attract an audience with a better price point.»

Presumably, HQN entered into its joint venture with Author Solutions as a way to make more money, so maybe there's an argument that * if * RWA was able to force HQN to break the contract with Author Solutions and * if * that resulted in a loss of prospective revenue and * if * that revenue was theoretically budgeted to keep book prices down...

The «Why not» is simple — the only way for authors to order their own books is by paying full list price from their book's Amazon page.

Publishers reach for potential strong sellers and insist on relatively high prices, authors rejected by publishers package and promote their own work the way nobody else can and traditional booksellers stress the personal experience.

Amazon talks a real good talk about how lower ebook prices mean more sales, but when they're going out of their way to make it hard for customers to buy Hachette ebooks, it's the authors who're losing the sales.

Amazon would like to discount those prices heavily — which, by the way, doesn't change the money that the author sees by a dime.

I have found a number of indie and small press published authors who understand the market and who know the fastest way onto a reader's device is to price their work reasonably and to do away with DRM.

If publishers / authors are viewing the ebook (and audio books for that matter) this way, then it is no wonder that this issue for pricing has come up.

But Hachette wants to control its own prices and believes the only way to respect talent and guarantee the continued production of serious literature is by scaling the prices of e-books depending on many different factors such as author, release date, degree of success, etc..

There's not an easy way to give all that stuff (and actually know what you're doing so it works) and still make a profit, at a price authors are willing to pay.»

There will always be the mega selling authors that do the big business, but the vast majority of us will no doubt have to claw our way upward at a price to get noticed.

One of the ways that most authors are doing this today is through price promotions.

So, we have some very compelling data from the big companies that are involved in self - publishing, in one way or another, but what are authors saying about e-book pricing?

What you are really suggesting is akin to a protective tariff for the Publishing Establishment — another way for an industry, which has been declining for lack of innovation, to wipe out upstart competitors, so that it can continue to charge its customers (readers) inflated prices for its products and to offer a pittance to its suppliers (authors).

Since the authors can price all the way down to zero, they can also use time - tested marketing strategies, such as «free first in series,» and promotions based on reduced pricing.

By the way, in an NPR Planet Money discussion of Amazon's new Kindles and the Fire, Eduardo Porter, author of The Price of Everything, compared Amazon's strategy of selling e-readers at below cost with bars in the mid-19th century U.S. that offered a free lunch if customers paid for drinks.

Way to go Big Five I want to quote from the conclusion of the article «For authors who want control over their pricing, so they can avoid become casualties in wars between retailers and publishers, the choice of publication method is clear.

Instead most of these indie authors price their book based on a fear factor, hoping they could grab readership that way that would then miraculously turn into profits some time in the future.

Price: One of the biggest challenges we see authors face is publishing a book that is way over-priced for their category or their audience.

This way, Bookbub gets the best deals for readers while offering staggered prices for authors.

ResultSource, a company that doesn't even attempt to hide its purpose in allowing authors to buy their way onto the New York Times or Wall Street Journal bestseller lists, including upon debut for the right price, is coming under fire for this practice.

With this edition we also wanted to create the subject index in a different way to explore methods for lowering our indexing costs so we could offer the indexing option at a more affordable price point for our authors.

While it is wonderful that self - publishing has become a viable way for authors to get their work into circulation, it comes with a price.

Authors and publishers will see this as a way to provide value added opportunities for readers while still maintaining a reasonable price point for the primary works.

Lower eBook prices might actually be the quickest way to make more money, at least for indie authors.

As we all now, ebooks are almost always priced lower, often way lower, and self - published authors even lower than that.

Preston asked readers, in the most public way possible, to support Hachette — a company that wants to raise ebook prices while keeping author royalties low, and to express their displeasure directly at Amazon, a company that wants to keep ebook prices low while giving authors higher royalties.

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For most authors, a price like that would be way too high.

That estimate could be off by 10 % either way, but even if we adjusted it to assume a wholesale price of 120 % of retail (which would mean Amazon is taking a loss on every traditionally published e-book sold), indie authors would still come out on top.

I don't see how this hurts authors in any way — in fact it's a win: your readers get a better price, but you get full royalties.

As Amazon works to find ways to offer more and more distinctive, high - quality Kindle content at prices that will continue to support the decisions of millions of avid readers to invest in Kindles, it is high time for the company to provide all its authors with the opportunity to come up with innovative ideas like this one.

That combo of requirements — curation and large volumes of titles — Singer says «led us to the conclusion that the pricing model of not paying royalties in exchange for the broad marketing and discovery opportunity that getting content into public libraries would provide to self - published authors» was the way to go.

Indeed, another way to look at this is that by insisting on these higher ebook prices (compared with 2008 and 2009), the publishers have wrapped up another 30 % of the bestseller list, attached a bow, and given it away to indie authors.

Secondly, your price point comment seems to miss one point: given the royalty rate (as long as it keeps fixed the way it is (I admit that it may change)-RRB-, the author gets as much (2 $) with a 3 $ self - published book as with a 15 $ classically published (as Victoria recognizes).

The obvious pricing tug - of - war continues, and Amazon appears to have decided that it can have it both ways by combining popular, quality low - priced offerings by (mostly) indie authors with corporate publishers» new releases priced mostly in the $ 9.99 - $ 12.99 range preferred by publishers.

And if * every * book has this pricing, there won't be any way to use pricing to help authors stand out.

Ebook pricing on Amazon has quite a few permutations — I've even heard some self - published authors described as «day traders» for the way they lower / raise prices according to their position in the charts.

I've always assumed that cheap ebooks are priced that way because publishers and authors figure that's how they'll make most money.

(I'm not likely to even consider a new book for $.99 unless I know the author's work, because I'll see the price as the author's way of telling me that even he or she thinks it's not worth very much.

Finally, someone has solved the pricing problem for e-books in a way that makes money for authors.»

And it's not just publishers, as booksellers hit hard over the past decade by Amazon's price - cutting ways have gone so far as to organize a boycott of authors who go with Amazon's imprints.

Free and bargain - priced e-books are a good way to try a new author, but what if you don't have time to troll the various e-book retailers looking for the latest available freebies?