Sentences with phrase «e-book costs to the reader»

But then, I have problems trusting a company that colludes with others to price fix e-book costs to the reader at a price point that is well above what I would pay for a hard copy of the book.

Not exact matches

There are other services like BookBub that offer low cost e-books to targeted readers.

The blog did the math and determined that the New York Times could buy every single subscriber an Amazon Kindle e-book reader, and it would still cost them half as much as it will cost them to send paper newspapers for just one year.

It's set up to allow readers to get the e-book edition of a book at a very low cost...

Amazon and Kobo use their e-book market to compensate for the loss of the hardware while «indie» - makers have not that ability and thus must take in the cost of making the readers at sale and that make it a step different to Kindle and Kobo.

See to it that you don't end up buying an e-book reader that do not cost much upfront but can lead to significant expenses by way of downloading e-books later on.

Cost - conscious readers who used to wait for the heavily discounted paperback have now realized that the e-book edition, available on the first day the book is published, can be about the same price.

While American readers are used to enjoying a reduced price for e-books due to lack of printing and shipping costs, as well as nearly instant access to titles on or close to the print release date, that is simply not always the case abroad.

E-books, like it or not, are here to stay and readers are smart enough to know that an e-book, especially when publishers say you don't actually own it, should not cost the same as a print version.

As far as readers are concerned, the incremental cost to produce more copies of an e-book is zero.So the readers expect an eBook to be priced less than a physical book.

And those same publishers still curse the name Jim Baen for daring to spoil the foolish readers and letting them think 1) that e-books are good and 2) that e-books don't have to be laden with DRM nor do they have to cost as much as physical books.

The problem is that readers are are comparing the cost of e-books to the cost of printed books.

If you like to read more than a few books a year, I think you'll be very happy with an e-book reader, and the price cut means you might even pay for your new K2 in a year through the lower cost of e-books compared to paper books (not to mention all the free classics out there!).

This is a key point: whether it's called a license or a sale, readers do understand that they don't get all the rights they get with print books, and don't think they should pay the full print price (also, of course, we understand e-books cost less to produce).

, and that the lower costs of e-books, the worldwide digital distribution they afford me, and the ability to reach readers without going through layers of middlemen (publishers and agents) has allowed me to price my e-books competitively and sell more books in a month than I used to in a decade.

Instead of being able to combine «new book tax» with «nicer, more expensive to print hardcover» costs, readers now understand there are no print costs with e-books, and can see the new book tax for what it is.

The company has taken the steps to release the e-reader, which will cost # 139.99 when it is released on 1st October, after readers reported they were put off from buying more e-books because they couldn't use their devices near water.

Amazon's second iteration of its popular e-book reader, Kindle, costs US$ 185.49 to build, $ 173.51 less than its retail price, according to an iSuppli Teardown report.

According to the Sunday Times in the UK, the product, dubbed the Eee Reader after the cheap Asus Eee PC netbooks, may be cheaper than Kindle and Sony e-book readers, with the budget version possibly costing as little as $ 165 in the UK.

Consumer opinion in Japan about what an e-book reader should look like and cost is yet to be shaped.

E-books in particular can be relatively cost - effective to produce, getting your work into the hands of readers and customers faster than if you used traditional publishers.

It is going to be interesting over the next few months to see just what impact, if any, having a low cost, reliable e-book reader — backed by what is, in my opinion, one of the best customer service departments there is — on the market will have on not only the sales of e-books but of printed books as well.

I could use my $ 300 netbook to read Barnes and Nobel e-books and may give it a try but suspect a low cost ($ 195US or less) dedicated e-book reader would be more attractive.

The declining e-book sales reported by publishers do not account for the millions of readers who have migrated to cheap and plentiful self - published e-books, which often cost less than a dollar.

«In the abstract, a subscription model for e-books is not hugely compelling for many readers: the catalogues are limited, and most people don't read enough to make the convenience of having access to huge numbers of books useful, or an all - you - can - eat subscription cost - effective,» the company said.

The first so - called mini price - war on the e-book reader market occurred last month, when Barnes and Noble cut the cost of the Nook, the broadband versions, to $ 199.

The premise being, as the consumer public migrates from paper to Kindles and e-book readers, there will be a growing temptation to skip the low - cost Amazon digital purchase, and run to the free alternative — sites like RapidShare, Megaupload, and Hotfile.

This agnostic approach helps a library avoid the cost of subscribing to multiple digital library platforms to deliver the titles its lawyers need, as well as eliminating the need to license multiple copies of the same e-book in different formats to ensure it can be used across a diverse selection of devices or readers.