To a large degree, gone are the days
when eBooks sold for $ 97, but it's extremely unusual for people to sell eBooks on their own site for only $ 2.99, the going rate for Kindle books.
If the author earns $ 2.99
when his eBook sells on Amazon for $ 2.99, how come the baker doesn't earn $ 2.99 when his bread sells in the supermarket for $ 2.99?
So, If the author earns $ 2.99
when his eBook sells on Amazon for $ 2.99, how come the firm that makes the bread doesn't earn $ 2.99 when his bread sells in the supermarket for $ 2.99?
If an author earne $ 2.99
when his eBook sells on Amazon for $ 2.99, does Hachette earn $ 15 if it's hardback sells on Amazon for $ 15?
When an ebook sells for $ 1 to $ 6, and the AVERAGE ebook sells a few hundred copies (or even a few thousand) where's the money for development in addition to: design, additional content such as illustration, audio or video, editing, a teeny bit of overhead, royalties, and promotion?
Not exact matches
When a big - name writer such as Rowling — who, let's face it, is the biggest there is — goes solo and decides to
sell her own
ebooks independent of any publisher, that contributes to two things.
Amazon opened the floodgates in 2007, the same year it released its first e-reader,
when it launched Kindle Direct Publishing, allowing anyone to upload, publish, and
sell his own
ebook for free.
When Amazon released the Kindle, for example, it disrupted its physical book -
selling business, but with a more innovative solution
selling eBooks.
I wasn't surprised,
when after the Chag, I suddenly
sold a bunch of copies of my Whole30
ebook.
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When I see an
ebook that
sells for twice the price of the paperback version, either someone has lost their mind, is asleep at the wheel, or is deliberately steering the ship towards an iceberg,» she said.
So
when a retailer discounts your
ebook and you don't
sell enough extra copies to make up the difference, he is giving you an arbitrary pay cut.
Mark Coker started Smashwords
when a quarter of 1 % of U.S. books
sold were
ebooks.
The big
selling point is that they have libraries adopt their entire digital catalog free and libraries only pay a fee
when users borrow an audiobook,
eBook or graphic novel.
Today, we spoke directly with Sony to get a sense of the company's overall mentality
when it comes to
selling ebooks.
It gives you far higher per - book earnings than traditionally published authors are receiving (even those whose
ebooks are
selling for $ 10 +), it gives the readers a deal
when compared to most traditionally published
ebooks, and it's often considered a fair price by those who feel that digital books should cost less than the dead - tree variety since paper, ink, and shipping aren't a part of the equation.
You make a profit of $ 2.34
when you
sell on Amazon.com; through your CS -
eBook sales page, you'll make a profit of $ 4.34.
It is possible to see the foundations of the modern
eBook from such activity, as the necessity for reflowable text
when reading on a Portable Digital Assistant (PDA) led to the formation of the Open
eBook Publication Structure (a precursor to the EPUB format) in 1999, and several portable devices such as the Game Boy Advance, PalmPilot and SoftBook had facilities for modems, allowing readers to receive books without using a computer, often seen as one of the core
selling points of the original Kindle.
I was amazed at all the flack I received
when I
sold to an
ebook publisher in 2006.
As Michael Kozlowski points out in this article for Good E-Reader, «
When Amazon
sells you an
eBook for the Kindle, they have the right to remove it at any time.
This was the first time I'd ever recouped the
ebook - creation expenses before the book was released (
when going through Amazon and other online retailers, you get paid 60 + days after books
sell).
Who cares if the
ebook industry shrinks and people read less
when he can
sell them a game app instead and take his 30 % cut.
When you self - publish with IngramSpark, you have access to one of the publishing industry's largest global print and
ebook distribution networks which makes opportunities to
sell your books that much greater.
The dispute arose
when Macmillan CEO John Sargeant informed Amazon late January that he was proposing a new model for
selling ebooks through Amazon.
We've previously mentioned that Amazon followed the console business model, of
selling hardware cheap and recouping its losses by
selling content,
when it came to the Kindle Fire and one of its methods of making money is from
eBooks sold on the Kindle bookstore.
You'll get money for each book that leaves the distribution center or
when Amazon lets you know your
eBook is
selling, and you get all the profit.
Sell more
ebooks in volume
when they are cheaper and the reader is free or subsidized.
So
when the calendar rolled over to February 1st, I reset the price on the Faerie Blood
ebook to $ 4.99 on the various places where it's
sold.
And as I've said now at least four times... regardless of this copyright law,
when we are out of stock per the term of our contract, we have to revert the rights
when requested... no ifs ands or buts... unless we are still
selling an agreed upon threshold of
ebooks.
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When I started my online business in 2006, my dream and goal was to write and
sell eBooks on a variety of topics and create information products to
sell online.
Although we don't
sell direct from our website, our
ebooks are available in multiple formats and only carry use restrictions
when applied by the vendor.
I don't know of one author that we haven't reverted
when the license was up, assuming we were out or low on stock and only
selling minimal amounts of
ebooks.
To gain maximum interest and impact
when selling ebooks and products or even
when offering a free report, it is important that your product look valuable.
Amazon holds a copy of the
ebook so it can action a download to a customer
when a copy is
sold.
when you think about it, ereader sales slowing down as people keep them, switch to tablets with kindle or ecaliber software on them would likely be the answer, the real baseline is, are they
selling just as many
ebooks?
The bookseller chalked up the disappointing Nook revenue to «lower unit
selling volume» and dwindling
ebook sales, particularly
when compared to the release of The Hunger Games and Fifty Shades of Grey trilogies this time last year.
And the cool part about
selling eBooks on a site like Amazon is that
when someone checks one book out, Amazon recommends your other books.
You can also download our handy new
eBook Distribution Guidelines that'll save you lots of headaches
when it comes time to
sell through other retail channels.
We gave away 102
eBooks through Smashwords mostly
when we announced the book and for all of 2012 we
sold only 18 copies via Smashwords distribution.
If Publisher does not:
eBook price: $ 10.00 $ 7.00 received by publisher (after 30 % sales commission to retailer) 25 % of net royalty Royalty to author: $ 1.75 per title
sold Yep, definitely worth the time to find out exactly how this term is going to be defined in the contract
when it comes to electronic books.
When I first came online in 2006 people were teaching this model of writing an
eBook on a niche topic and then
selling it via their own one page website.
The downside is that
when you enroll, you're letting your
eBook be exclusively available through Amazon — you can't
sell it anywhere else.
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.
Back
when Fictionwise was first to
sell eBooks, I signed up to
sell my short fiction through them.
For example, at Barnes & Noble, where my
ebooks are
sold, my print books appeared as «available from third parties» (
when I only used CS).
When we look at the total number of
EBooks sold at Apples bookstore it seems to be grossly inflate.
Why buy an
ebook for $ 9.99
when you can buy a real book for $ 12.99 and
sell it afterwards or give it to a friend to read?
Geez, I went with Kobo to try to avoid giving money to Amazon and Barnes and Noble (I have some author friends who think Amazon / B & N have poor business practice, as they undercut the publishers
when selling ebooks which affects the publishers» / authors» profits on the books that THEY produced), but now I'm wishing I just caved and bought a darn Kindle like everybody else did.
This is most noticeable on the homscreen
when you are sweeping through the
eBooks Amazon is trying to
sell you.
How can these digital companies offer the
eBook for.99 p,
when the normal hardcover edition is being
sold for over $ 20.00?