ePublish a Book » Entries tagged with "ebook price"
How much for your eBook? Research shows the relation between ebooks unit price and sales per unit
How to set the price of your eBook? Opinions about what is the ideal price for an eBook abound and are often contradictory. Unsurprisingly, traditional publishers advocate keeping prices in the highest possible range in order to maximize their profit. Among self-publishers, however, the debate between proponents of high prices vs. low prices (below $5.00) is more a question of perceived self-value of the book than about profit per se. High price proponents’ argument is that by offering … Read entire article »
Filed under: Book Promotion, Resources, The ePublishing market
eBook Fair Pricing?
eBook Fair Pricing? Last week removal from Amazon’s shelves of Independent Publishers Group (IPG) 5000 books is a direct result of the ongoing dispute of what is a fair price for ebooks. For self-publishers, it seems a fair price for ebooks revolves around $2.99 for unknown writers, reserving the $0.99 price tag for promotion blitz campaigns meant mainly to rise higher in Amazon’s search algorithms and gain in visibility, hence increasing the chances of selling the book … Read entire article »
Filed under: The ePublishing market
Avoid Getting Banned from Amazon as an Author! – Part 1
Avoid Getting Banned from Amazon as an Author! – Part 1 So your book is now finished and up on Amazon shelves and you are keen to push the sales. Yet, better beware of using tactics that are in violation with the Terms and Condition of Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, as this would effectively give Amazon grounds to ban you for life from using their services as an author. As 80% of online book sales typically … Read entire article »
Filed under: Book Promotion, Resources, The Legal Corner
eBook Price Strategy on Amazon
Now your book is ready and about to be put on Amazon shelves. Yet, one question remains. What is the ideal price? Luckily, Fingers Murphy has kindly authorized the republication of his post about his own strategy and observations. eBook Price Clustering: Does the Price of Your Book Define Who Will Buy It? First published by Fingers Murphy Does the price you set your book at dictate which “Customers Also Bought” lists it ends up on? I think … Read entire article »
Filed under: The ePublishing market
Are ebooks overpriced or not?
The recent lawsuit filed against Apple and five of the six largest publishing houses by the Seattle-based law firm Hagens Berman for illegally fixing prices of e-books raises the question of what does e-book prices include. Some are arguing that the overhead of paper, printing, packaging, shipping, storage, and retail display effectively disappearing for ebooks, this significant lowering of the costs should be reflected in the price of the e-books. Publishers answer that ebooks incur new costs … Read entire article »
Filed under: Journal, The ePublishing market
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