If Publishers did figure out a way to
cut eBook costs they would be very unlikely to pass on the savings to readers.
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Since Apple takes a 30 %
cut of the sales price, then it seems likely that
ebooks bought as in - app purchases will
cost 30 % more than if bought direct from Amazon or Barnes & Noble.
The future midlist, which the Big 6 are
cutting for
cost reasons (10 % of their books make 90 % of their profit), will come out of self - pubbed
ebook authors.
Amazon has just
cut the price of the Kindle 2 in the US, suggesting the intermittent supply problems the retailer experienced may have finally been resolved, or that it's angling to sell more units of the
ebook reader by reducing the
cost.
It's a good reason to have a moderate charge for the
ebooks, as they do with bestsellers now, so that their extra
cost doesn't have to be funded from
cuts to services elsewhere.
Whilst this was probably true in many cases, I do believe that things have changed in recent years, especially with the arrival of
ebooks that
cost nothing to publish and allow authors to
cut out the middleman who would take so much of their profits.
Yet, those are very real
cuts — Even if indie bookstores fantasize that customers will visit just as often — they can't neglect the fact that they get a smaller
cut and that
ebooks will
cost less.
These pressures will become even greater in the next few years as the pace of
ebook growth moderates and players are forced to
cut costs and utilize resources more efficiently.