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My talk at Edinburgh 'Disruption in Publishing' Conference, 20 June 2014 An analysis of ebook sales from the Luzme ebook search site
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#pubconf What’s the price of an ebook?
Rachel Willmer
June 2014
Rachel WillmerFounder & CEO, Luzme
I created the world’s first (and IMHO the best) ebook search site, Luzme.
I speak at technical and business events: FutureBook, PyCon UK & IE.
Luzme has been featured in TechCrunch, LifeHacker and BoingBoing.
I like improvising with new technologies and business disruption.
I’m here to tell you to share some data, tell you some stories and ask you some questions.
How Much Difference Does Publication Age Make?
Average Cost By GenreUSA UK
All Kindle $5.66 £2.51
Romance $3.21 £1.73
SF $5.16 £3.57
Literature $7.73 £2.49
Biography $6.81 £3.26
Business/Finance $8.80 £4.98
Computing $8.07 £6.35
How Many Books On A Watchlist?
So what’s the price of an ebook?
• According to Luzme users’ purchases, $7 or £2.50
• According to Luzme users’ price targets, $8.80 or £5.08
• But it can be much much more• ($135 for “Digital Signal Processing in Power System Protection and
Control”)
And now…
A quick news announcement
E-Services VAT change
• This affects you if you sell B2C ‘electronic services’ in Europe:
• Ebooks• E-learning• Computer games
1 Jan 2015
• Now: you use the VAT rate in the UK• Then: you use the VAT rate and rules
of the customer (yes, in each of the ~30 countries…)
• MOSS• No minimal limit
QUESTIONS?
Rachel WillmerLuzme
[email protected]@rwillmer, @askluzme
http://luzme.com
This presentation will be available athttp://slideshare.net/rwillmer