Your eBook versions should be
cheaper than your print version, for example, Amazon require that your eBook be at least 20 % cheaper than your print book.
Publishers don't believe that digital books should be
cheaper than the print versions.
Basically, in the windowing model (again, if I'm understanding this correctly), the e-book versions, priced significantly
cheaper than their print versions, would not be available until weeks, maybe even months, after the print versions have hit the shelves.
Additionally, approximately 50 % said they'd do the same even if the e-book is only $ 2 - 3
cheaper than the print version.
Amazon won and everyone who buys a digital book expects the price to be a)
cheaper than the print version and b) inexpensive in general.
That's right, paying a few dollars more on ebooks is totally killing readers slowly or making them poorer or dumber??? The whole point of ebooks is that it is already
cheaper than print version.
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.
Additionally, approximately 50 % said they'd do the same even if the ebook is only $ 2 - 3
cheaper than the print version.
I'm in the UK but I always buy my 2000AD and Judge Dredd Megazine digitally: it's
cheaper than the print version, comes out only two days later, and you get to download it as.
Not exact matches
I like
printing a few hardcover
versions through Lulu (because it's easier and
cheaper to set up
than Lightning Source) and taking some media kit shots of me in a bookstore (doesn't have to be an official «book signing» — you can even put a few on the bestseller shelf and take pictures of them there).
I'm not willing to pay higher
than the
cheapest version of a
print book available.
Consumers can usually purchase individual e-books at a price that is
cheaper than the paper
print version.
After Amazon's rift with publishers, the retailer handed over pricing and now digital
versions are only slightly
cheaper (or the same price)
than print in a lot of cases.
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.
Even if we believe that 10 % figure, the e-book should still cost less
than the
cheapest printed version (and most e-books do), no matter what kind of creative math publishers try to use.
Given that the Web and mobile
versions are so much easier to use
than the
print version, the even - better part is that they are also
cheaper.