Per Kobo's Mark Lefebvre, the move away from $ 1.99 is clear Publisher's Weekly ran an article about Kobo Writing Life (KWL) that included a great sound
bite about ebook pricing trends from Mark Lefebvre, Director of Self - Publishing and Author Relations.
Not exact matches
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.
It's important for listeners to know a
bit about the background, because across Europe, many countries, including France as well as Germany, have national laws that mandate fixed
prices for books, including
ebooks.
People have been complaining
about the
price of dedicated
ebook readers for years and the new Kobo eReader brings quite a
bit to the table for just $ 149.