I agree with what Andreys saying, and I do feel the big publishers who are pushing for this are working togather to try and wring more profits out of ebook sales and / or push people back to buying more
dead tree copies.
They want $ 15 for the e-copy of a Hot New Bestseller — same as the heavily - discounted price of
the dead tree copy, so that the e-copy does not compete with the same book in dead tree, and Macmillan can recoup their substantial investment in the book.
And of course once you have a copy there is a loss of impetus to get it legalised, though a solid
dead tree copy is always good — assuming sufficient shelf space.
Might even buy
a dead tree copy today!
Not exact matches
The book's currently selling for $ 6.99 on Kindle or $ 16 for a
dead -
tree copy, which is a low price to pay for this kind of analysis and insight straight from the horse's mouth.
Why not sell digital
copies at your «
dead -
tree» royalty rate?
Oh, and that reminds me, I finally got off my
dead A and published all my books hard
copy, so if you want to pay way too much and kill a bunch of
trees, you know how to do it.
But i honestly can not remember the last time I bought Big - 5 fiction retail — I only get used
dead -
tree copies any more, $ 15 ebooks can go... take care of themselves.
In the good old days, I used to keep interesting
copies of the
dead tree press when they broke big stories.