Last year I saw several of my clients» debut novels come out
with an ebook price that was higher than the print book price.
McQuivey said the Department of Justice action against Apple and five publishers charged
with eBook price - fixing put an end to «Apple's hope for ever becoming an alternative refuge for publishers to run to» and «certainly made it clear that Apple is not going to be a contender in the publishing world — at least not given current circumstances, devices and customer relationships.»
With eBooks prices foreseeable coming down, as smaller publishing houses can sell books cheaper than any other store, authors, and smaller publishing companies can get wider exposure which is a boon to everyone from the reader, to the author.
A number of authors, including JA Konrath and Hugh Howey, made international headlines this week with their open discussions of what is wrong
with ebook pricing and sales data.
Parents of e-reading children are most comfortable
with ebooks priced between $ 3.50 and $ 9.00, paying $ 7.00 on average for a children's ebook, a figure that has risen steadily over the past year
Like the United States and Canada, Australia has struggled
with ebook prices that are too high, platforms with unpredictable fees, and licenses that are hostile to libraries, users, and authors alike.
With ebooks priced nearly on parallel with print sales, publishers can create a value - related decision point for readers to evaluate whether they would rather own a print book versus a digital copy.
Fellow Indelible Ali Cross does gorgeous work too,
with ebook pricing from $ 75 (for 25k) to $ 125 (100k).
It was all to do
with ebook pricing.
John, youhave been forthcoming of financial details in the past; what are * your * experiences
with ebook pricing vis a vis sales, earnings, and the effect on print sales?
You claim publishers would make up for ebook price caps at the expense of the midlisters or new authors, but I've personally already seen plenty of unknown authors
with ebooks priced quite high, which I would argue hurt both their immediate sales and their career trajectory.
Despite growing frustration
with the ebook pricing and availability policies of many publishers, U.S. libraries have continued to respond to growing demand from patrons by rapidly expanding their collections of ebooks, according to LJ and SLJs third annual «2012 Survey of Ebook Usage in U.S. Public Libraries» report, sponsored by Freading.
First, there is a Long Weekend Sale
with ebooks priced up to 75 % off!
I've been thrilled
with ebook prices as MMPBs are often $ 15 here and hardcovers $ 40, so I've had to be a lot choosier about buying books brand new for quite a few years.
I'll also be able to play
with the ebook pricing when it comes out.
«Parents of e-reading children seem most comfortable
with ebooks priced between $ 3.50 and $ 9.50.
Not exact matches
My own Canadian publisher, Penguin, has been fighting
with Amazon over
ebook pricing and generally trying to resist the digital revolution completely.
Normally, retailers get to decide how much they sell books for, but the publishers were down
with the plan because they were worried about Amazon's growing power and the company's penchant for selling
ebooks at low
prices.
In both situations, Apple had convinced major book publishers to go
with an «agency model,» which would let them set their own
prices on
ebooks (as in raise
prices on
ebooks).
The conspiratorially minded might think it has to do
with publishers» efforts at buffing up
ebook prices with the tech company — something that has brought all parties no end of grief from antitrust watchdogs.
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/
I may very well write another
ebook with a lower
price point about specific topics.
I wish that Logos would become competitive here and sell their digital books for significantly less than the paperback books, and maybe even do some sort of
price matching
with Amazon Kindle
eBooks.
You will receive an
eBook in digital format that is loaded
with a step - by - step guide to show you how to create a capsule wardrobe, a guide of suggested clothes and shoes to include in your capsule, a checklist, a visual outfits guide, a one - page travel packing guide and guide for 8 ways to save up to save at least 50 % off retail
prices.
You will receive an
eBook in digital format that is loaded
with a step - by - step guide to show you how to create a capsule wardrobe, a guide of suggested clothes and shoes to include in your capsule, a checklist, a visual outfits guide, a one - page travel packing guide and guide for 8 ways to save up to save at least 50 % off retail
prices.
For example, consider a training program for Sales reps.. While an eCourse can cover the product features in detail, an
eBook can offer a comprehensive comparison
with leading competitors — including
pricing options and product specs.
This month, it was the turn of
ebooks: six science fiction and fantasy titles available at the purchaser - defined
price,
with those paying above average unlocking seven more, including Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean's acclaimed Signal to Noise.
So, second, while the Amazon stock may take a little temporary tumble, I suspect the reasons have more to do
with the still relatively low
price for most
ebooks ($ 9.99) and the rise in competition.
Consider an
eBook price cut: As mentioned earlier, there's an eager market for romance
eBooks so entice readers
with a deal.
prices are better
with ebooks.
When comparing that «basically free» phenomenon
with a regularly
priced eBook, and given the high volume of books they read on a regular basis, those regularly
priced eBooks can seem overpriced.
My
ebooks are
priced at 4.95
with Ridan because they did run a lot of numbers looking at
pricing with Michael J. Sullivan's books and determined that sales in that niche were maximized at the 4.95
price point.
Indie - publishing an
ebook gives you the flexibility
with your
pricing you would never get
with a publishing house.
But the reality is that
pricing is more often than not dictated by a broader market filled
with thousands of
eBooks under $ 10, many of them on best seller lists.
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Price to another Sale Currency, the converted List
Price in the Sale Currency will be your List
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eBook in the Sale Currency for all purposes under this Agreement.
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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.
But it puts the pressure on authors to
price their
eBooks lower, to offer some or all of them for free, and to do it
with a smile on their face, even as they are (metaphorically) cutting off pieces of themselves to gain a foothold in the fickle book market.
@thecreativepenn Thanks for your advice on not letting Amazon auto - set India
ebook prices in your podcast interview
with @minalh.
However, after five major publishers made an agreement
with Apple on
ebook pricing that specified other platforms couldn't undersell Apple, Amazon was forced to raise
prices, and many books began selling for $ 14.99.
The problem
with this, however, is that this means that the major publishing houses now have bumped the
prices back up for a LOT of new
ebook releases.
Assuming an average
eBook price of about $ 4.99, and an average royalty rate of 60 %, let's say, you'd have to sell about 1,400 copies every month consistently to make a decent living, and I'm here to tell you that anything having to do
with the sale of a non-essential product will never, ever be consistent.
Promotional materials — Have business cards and bookmarks
with the cover, your website, your free
eBook, your x for the
price of y if you have some other books.
The trends in other industries will affect consumer expectations in publishing — and in small ways, it already has,
with a movement geared to opening copyrighted works to the public, and the US Department of Justice suing all of the «big six» and Apple for
price fixing (iBookstore
prices differ widely from Amazon's), which will likely give Amazon the upper hand in setting
ebook prices in the long run.
Apple and Macmillan deny they colluded to raise
ebook prices, according to a Bloomberg report that cites sources familiar
with the matter.
Vook's latest
pricing compares favourably
with automated self - publishing services like BookBaby (US149 - $ 249 per title plus $ 19 per title for distribution), and
with outsourced
ebook conversion services, though the latter is a better option if you need to work from hard copies or print - ready PDFs, neither of which is supported by Vook.
No one — NO ONE —
with a financial incentive to reduce
ebook sales should be in charge of
pricing ebooks.
Amazon fixes Kindle
ebook prices to compete
with Apple and welcome more consumers, and they refuse to operate according to an agency model.
Library Directwill allow libraries to bundle books in Smashwords» catalog and select the books based on sales ranking; partnered
with the new
Pricing Manager which allows authors and publishers to set the
prices that libraries will pay, even opting to make their titles free to libraries, the amount of
ebook titles that libraries can offer to patrons will increase.
For their part, Random House explained that the
pricing of the
ebook now reflects the
price of the audiobook edition of the same title; however, there was no justification for that
pricing model, since
ebooks don't require the costs associated
with utilizing a recording crew and voice talent.