Ebook Prices.

Another seven weeks have passed since I last
checked the prices of Amazon’s 100 best-selling ebooks. The trend of ebooks becoming
dearer, that I reported in August, seems to have stabilised.

At the lower prices, six ebooks were 99c as compared
to seven at that price in August and three in June. This is down from a massive
34 at 99c in February.

$1.99 has resurfaced as a price in the best seller list,
with eight ebooks at that price. The last two times the number priced at $1.99
was too insignificant to mention.

The number at the ebook guru price of $2.99
remained steady at 16. In August there were 15, June 22, and in February 32 at
that price.

$3.99 (14) and $4.99 (9) have been confirmed as
popular selling prices for ebooks. For $3.99 the numbers were 17 in August and
13 in June. There were 11 at $4.99 in August.

Thirty ebooks were priced $7 or more this time,
compared to 32 in August and 47 in June.

The mid-range of prices, $3.99 to $6.99, with 36
ebooks, seems to be becoming more popular.  
 
The three “Fifty Shades” ebooks were at $9.09, which is interesting as I saw the paperback version of the first book in that series selling for $8 in Kmart. Most lovers of books would normally buy the paperback version, but many might prefer the anonymity of an ebook. So perhaps the publishers can get away with the ebook being more expensive than the paperback version.

Ebooks Sales.

Aussie
author Graham
Storrs is having some success selling his very good ebook Timesplash
using the Kindle Select scheme. I have mentioned this scheme before. The scheme
allows an author to temporarily make the ebook free which hopefully sees it
rise up the bestseller lists, raising the ebook’s profile and leading to increased
paid sales when the price comes back on.  

Graham
says that once the free book giveaway was over, “TimeSplash
started selling. In the weeks that followed, it peaked at 400 sales a day and
it stayed in the Amazon.com top 100 for ten weeks.”

400
sales a day! Not bad at all.

In
previous posts, I have reported on a few other authors who have successfully
boosted their sales using the KDP scheme.