Finally, a higher print price could make the
lower digital price more enticing; suddenly, your ebook is a bargain.
This technology is geared towards
digital price tags and ranges from a few inches to six and greater.
You need to understand the target market before you make judgments on
digital pricing vs physical copy pricing.
Everyone agrees on that, but obviously as consumers our perspective is that
digital prices need to come down.
Some of the games in the Saints Row series, along with Bungie's first person shooter Destiny,
get digital price cuts this week for the Xbox One and Xbox 360 as part of Microsoft's latest Deals with Gold promotion.
I'm focusing on the problems with console
digital pricing right now, but of course it makes sense to look over the fence where the grass is greener and the digital market is ripe and sweet.
When I see a lot of new novels in SF / F coming out at
digital price points of $ 12.99, $ 13.99, and $ 14.99, or novellas coming out at price points like $ 9.99, then yes, I'm going to buy fewer new ebooks.
And it feels pretty strongly about the call, too, suggesting that it would happily accept 30 percent of digital book revenue — that's the same percentage it currently receives from Hachette — if the publisher
dropped digital prices to $ 9.99 across the board.
«New York's longstanding quasi-monopoly on the publishing business hasn't been ideal for consumers, either,» he points out, citing delayed digital releases, too -
high digital prices, and a lack of consumer - and author - centric innovation.
It's Australia as well which is sweet,
because digital prices over here are jawdroppers (Cost WAY MORE than retail most of the time).
Macmillan wanted Amazon to increase
digital prices from $ 9.99 to $ 15.99 and needless to say it was easier to pull the titles than set a precedent for expensive titles.
Archie Comics publishes all its comics simultaneously in digital and print, with
digital priced $ 1 cheaper.
The intention behind Spectra is to offer commercial operations to
implement digital price tags, with the sale logo or numbers to really pop out and grab peoples attention.
Series Name: Lunch Box Romance Publisher: Boroughs Publishing Group Rating:
Sweet Digital Price: $ 0.99
Dark Horse CEO Mike Richardson spoke with CBR about the company's digital comics strategies, maintaining strong relationships with brick and mortar stores, the initial confusion over same
day digital pricing and more.
This week, Marvel goes same day digital with (almost) its entire line, Mark Waid
debates digital pricing, David Lloyd debuts a new graphic novel through iTunes and more!
Guillemot later highlighted stock as another reason for
keeping digital prices higher: «If we have stock in stores, we tend to make sure we decrease the quantity of units in stores before going digital with lower prices.»
Console Digital Prices Reflect Their Physical counterparts so as to not Undermine Their Value & to Help Support the Physical Releases as well as advertising.
For an example of the physical /
digital price differences, last year's Far Cry 4 is still $ 59.99 on the PlayStation Store, but you can buy it for $ 39.99 regularly on Amazon, with a sale right now putting it at $ 24.00.
Some people
accept digital prices despite the apparent abusive price points because they like the conveniences digital brings and they can afford it, but the vast majority of games are still sold on disc and the second hand market still thrives.
Product: PS Vita Hand Grip Created By:
CTA Digital Price: $ 12.99 Reviewed By: Joshua Williams So you've had your Vita for a while now and for the most part you've been pleased.
I
think Digital prices on new games are not really Sony's fault, they have to keep retail stores happy otherwise they wont stock the console and accessories, if Sony undercuts them (or even equals) on price then everyone is going to go digital only, game stores will die and not be able to sell consoles.
We've seen similar (in fact much worse)
digital pricing before on the PSN, but for a company taking brave new steps into the downloadable game arena this comes across as a bit of a disheartening statement of intent from Nintendo.
The full game is currently on sale digitally for # 34.99 - # 10 less than retail - as Microsoft experiments with
cheaper digital pricing.
We looked into the differences between physical and
digital pricing strategies last week so head over there to get some background on how other companies manage their storefronts before we discuss Nintendo's differing model.
E Ink Holdings announced a strategic collaboration with SES - imagotag, a developer of
digital price tags.
Presumably Follett, an exceptionally strong brand, is maximizing his income at a $ 21.00
digital price point.
Establishing a common ground for
digital pricing meant that they could control the pricing for both the tangible and intangible and make sure the physical bookstore would continue to survive.
GabeSA you
want digital pricing to be lower than the physical stores selling games also want it to reflect those prices.
The problem
with digital pricing is DC / Marvel both need to appease retailers so they can't just price digital lower than print even though digital comics purchases at cover price probably net publishers around the same as 2 - 3 print sales.