Sentences with phrase «because ebooks cost»

That's the key underlying point, in fact, to the whole argument: Amazon could sell ebooks for $ 9.99 and break even or make a bit of money even if they pay their wholesale pulp brink price to the publishers, and the publishers make money on the ebooks even if they do take some discount, because ebooks cost nothing on the margin to produce.

Not exact matches

Every single time I've heard anyone defend higher ebook prices, they cite the fact that «just because the publication is electronic, that doesn't eliminate costs.»

It's amazing how often I see some variant of the phrase «We can't afford to price our ebooks lower because we have costs to recoup.»

I am not going to buy an ebook, when I could buy the hardcover for just $ 4 more (I guess it will also depend on whether you are a Prime member, because I forgot about that $ 4 shipping cost).

Saying that a book costs $ 0.00 for Kindle Unlimited subscribers is also deceptive because subscribers aren't purchasing the ebooks — they're just borrowing them until they return them.

Because printed editions have very different layout requirements from ebooks, there are extra costs associated with the cover and text sections of your book.

We always make sure our ebook prices are less than our print prices But because the sales are now spread between print and digital the costs can't be that dramatically different because otherwise we would end up with much less revenue... unless you want to argue if the book were 4.99 we'd possibly sell a lot more ebooks.

Publishers are increasingly annoyed because while there are some cost savings involved in eBook production versus print production, they still have the same overhead, including acquisitions, editorial, marketing, sales and production (if not printing).

Clearly the expectation that ebooks should cost a lot less than paper copies of the books because of lower marginal costs of production doesn't match the reality that marginal cost of production really IS marginal even for paper books.

Print books have a baseline price they can't drop below because of paper costs, but there are no such restrictions on ebooks.

Because the ebook market is matured to a point where self - management is easy and there are no downsides or costs.

«Amazon keeps promoting the idea that an eBook should cost much, much less than a hardcover because the cost of producing it is so much lower.

The future with an enforced «everybody selling at our selected price» future means Amazon and B&N sell less Kindles and Nooks because the book lovers are going to see the discounted HC at $ 18 and compare that to an eBook at $ 15 (plus cost of device) and deem it not worth buying a Kindle or Nook edition with its limitations.

These provide reliable publication that can cost you much less than you'd pay a vanity publisher (many of the ebook - only options are free) and in addition make your book easy to order online and in bookstores (though again, because of these services» business policies, it's unlikely that you'll have bookstore presence).

Macmillan's ebook prices don't have to go up because the costs to produce an ebook are high and fixed.

I'm student from Mexico and I've found more practical to use eBooks and eReaders because pricing (in Mexico, the digital editions cost likely 30 % and 50 % less money than the physical ones), light weight, interactivity and ecological reasons (less paper used = less dead trees)

I understand very well the mentality that a «dead tree» book is «something» that people pay for without argument because it's a material object while an ebook seems to be regarded (even by many fans of the medium) as something that costs «nothing» and should therefore be free or very cheap, which brings me to...

Because the marginal cost of an ebook is zero, absent the Kindle their price might very well have ended up being, well, zero.

Because this week only the eBook for A Noble Masquerade is available to download at no cost to you.

The actual printing of a book, especially mmp, is one of the least expensive parts of the process; the fixed costs don't disappear because it's an ebook, as Victoria and others have said.

Half the problem is that Amazon make you all think that ebooks should cost that little, and that's the point — they want everyone to fall in line with them because they can.

Many indie authors eschew pbooks over ebooks because of costs and royalties and other things (I can release an ebook more efficiently than a pbook), but even Amazon does paper (Create Space).

Because the cost of an eBook is less to publishers the cost of the book should be less to consumers.

I say this because an eBook takes out the cost of...

I agree ebooks need to cost less simply because digital products are inherently transitory, although terrific products.

Irish Library services offering ebooks to their members will face higher costs for some ebooks because of a new condition introduced by publishing giant HarperCollins.

Because after you've paid all the costs to get to the point of having an ebook to sell, everything after that is essentially free.

«Because ebooks have no physical manifestation it is harder for consumers to perceive the production cost that have gone into them — 20p could eventually be seen as the benchmark price».

Ok, from what I can see with ebooks, the price point they make such a big deal about is almost irrelevant because you have no «replacement cost.»

In my opinion, there SHOULD be a massive gulf between eBook and physical book pricing, but not for anything to do with «costs» of the two media types, but because of the VALUE.

You don't buy hardcovers because it would cost you a great deal of money to get them shipped to your home, yet you say that the ebook costs you more than the hardcover does.

You can't deny the eBook has less value than a paperback, and cost less to produce, so please explain to me this thinking — because I don't get it, and as a result, most publishers can rot with their set the price methodology.

I will still argue that ebooks should cost less than physical books * because you get less.

Opportunity with smaller libraries B&T courted smaller libraries because the company noticed many of them were relying on consortial arrangements to afford startup costs of ebook platforms but that, once in the consortium, they sometimes felt they were not getting equal access to content.

They say it will be cost effective because currently the government spends over 100 $ in text books, and ebook reader will fall in price soon.

As it says in the ULC award website, SCCLD and JukePop wanted to provide a new route to independent eBooks because of the cost to libraries and challenges to library patrons.

Julia Proctor of University of Wyoming Libraries raised the issue of time management in New Library World's «Avoiding Ebook Big Deals:» The staff time that it takes to go through those packages is an indirect cost to the library and a considerable one because often these packages contain thousands of titles and take a great deal of time to evaluate.»

Just because there is no «up front» cost to libraries to add the Kindle format ebooks, doesn't mean this won't somehow figure into OverDrive's platform fee.

But to have it in print once again gives fans another product and it doesn't cost much money to format and it makes your eBook look a really good deal because it's a massive book and it's expensive.

Amazon contends that ebooks are «unjustifiably» expensive, because they do away with the cost of printing, warehousing and transport.

And anyway, if the publisher demands that ebook licenses expire after 26 or 52 checkouts, then each checkout does effectively cost the library money because it brings them that much closer to having to buy a new license.

Great time to be an Indie author, especially because they can make, market and sell ebooks at no cost, bypass a publisher, sell an ebook for $ 1.99, have a decent royalty and a very happy consumer in the reader, plus it's environmental.

First, I felt that an ebook shouldn't cost more than 70 % the cost of the least expensive print version of the book because once the pre-production is done, there are no further production costs for an ebook.

Ebook subscription service Scribd has dumped many romance and erotica novels from its line - up because they are so popular with readers that they cost the company too much.

This was illustrated by rival ebook subscription service Scribd when it dumped lots of romance and erotica titles from its line - up in July because they were too popular with readers and cost the company too much.

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