If the digital edition is significantly
cheaper than the print edition, you'll start seeing sales moving from print to digital — the eternal fear of the content companies that the digital version of something will cannibalize sales from the physical version.
Although about $ 10
cheaper than the print edition available on Amazon.com, a reader would probably prefer to have this in print.
Not exact matches
Digital is still
cheaper than print: This just seems like common sense, but digital comics storefronts usually charge the full
print price for new digital comics, and
print books are often
cheaper than Kindle
editions on Amazon.
From what I've heard from textbook publishers, digital
editions are NOT going to be
cheaper than print counterparts (unlike with trade books, for example) because the high cost of the textbook is supposedly in the paying of the authors.
Subscriptions are
cheaper than the
print versions, but if I am going to pay for a magazine or newspaper, I'd rather read the
print edition.
And then the price goes down over time and you can get it
cheaper if you wait — usually way
cheaper than $ 9.99 since the publishers usually sync it with
print paper
edition prices.
Generally speaking, brand magazines are often far better
than those produced by traditional
print magazine publishers who too often decide that the
cheap and easy way to get their
print magazines into the app stores is better
than actually providing readers of digital
editions with an enjoyable digital magazine product.