Not exact matches
In my
eBook Annihilate Your Acne there's a
big section on sleep deprivation and how that can indirectly increase sebum
production.
In all of these scenarios, the marginal cost of
production is not going to be even $ 1 for a trade paperback and will rarely be over $ 1.50 for a trade hardcover (obviously the last
big brick Harry Potter novels cost a teeny bit more due to sheer volume of paper needed to print a 750 page novel, but not * that * much more), meaning that if we're talking marginal cost of
production as the difference in price between a paperback and an
ebook, we're not talking about a huge difference in price.
One of the
biggest issue publishers face with
ebook production is the somewhat adversarial attitude ereader and app vendors have taken towards publisher stylesheets.
For a very long time it's going to be very difficult for anybody to roll out an
ebook with ambitious design and interactivity while still retaining the
ebook's
biggest advantages (cheap
production, wide reach).
But what worries me is
big publishing seems to be relaxing their quality standards (or they never had them, as in the case of
ebook production).
«Identify the
biggest pain points for
ebook production.
Big publishers should be investing in a stable
production pipeline that allows them to turn out
eBooks rapidly and in high quality.
Given that
big publishers keep the prices of
eBooks artificially high (they'd sell millions of $ 2
eBooks, but I suspect their $ 20 printed complements wouldn't look very appealing to consumers), small publishers have exploited the low
production and distribution costs to flood the market with $ 1 — $ 3
eBooks.
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eBooks Can Look Better than
Big 6
eBooks, How to Read Your EPUB / MOBI File and How to Publish on Amazon KDP
While the
Big - Five published works make money, the author gets a small share of what the publisher makes regardless of how
production costs are lower to produce
eBooks to sell on Amazon.
Adobe is the
big one, but there are lots of start - ups too, many in an interesting new category: online
ebook production tools.
However, for what its worth, I would argue that
ebook prices from
big publishers are too high not from the perspective of
production costs, but from the perspective of value.
The
production costs for an
ebook are miniscule, and even if you add a traditional publicity budget, the
big publishers must still be making over $ 15 + per copy — and that's plain greedy!