You don't buy hardcovers because it would cost you a great deal of money to get them shipped to your home, yet you say that
the ebook costs you more than the hardcover does.
For example, when
an eBook costs more than a print book.
At nearly thirteen dollars,
the ebook costs more than a retail chain store's cardboard edition.
When the paperback comes out
the ebook costs more than the paperback.B5 pricing pushed me to libraries and independent authors for ebooks.
Looking at it from the outside it seems the only likely reason for making
the ebook cost more than a print book is to push readers towards physical books instead of digital.
Not exact matches
There is no sane reason why an
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cost more than a hardcover, but lo and behold, that's the case with my Sex, Bombs and Burgers.
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They're trying to avoid the crap with
ebooks being the same
cost (or
more) than paper like so many trad publishers are doing.
I frigging love the idea of 25 %
ebook royalties that work out to be
more like an effective 12.5 %, and I literally dance in the streets at the thought that all big publisher
ebooks should
cost $ 12 - $ 20.
If you want to get into reading
ebooks, it's a very legitimate question as to whether you should spend your money on a device that does only one thing — or whether it would be much
more cost - effective to get a general - purpose device like an iPad or an Android tablet instead.
Let me state this one
more time: I don't think lowering
ebook prices
costs anyone money unless and until they drop under that magic point.
By high pricing on
ebooks, they are losing some impulse and
cost conscience buyers, but by lower pricing they would likely be driving people who would normally buy the
more expensive hardcover over to the
ebook market, and not just for the book in question but for future purchases as well.
It's only $ 2.99 for the
ebook and has much
more info you can use than most «courses» that
cost $ 100s.
Instead of selling
ebooks for a one - time
cost and allowing libraries to lend these
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The additional
cost to future sales from having driven
more people to the cheaper
ebook format would be almost impossible to calculate.
This as - of - yet untapped level on consumer — the person who wishes he read
more books or was
more up - to - date on current events, but simply doesn't have enough time to devote to this type of reading — is becoming a bigger focus among digital publishing platforms; last week, Rooster announced the March 11th launch of its «snippet» reading subscription that lets users consume serialized books at a fraction of the
cost of full - size
ebook subscriptions, again, optimized for smartphone reading.
As for reasons, 52.5 percent cited lower
costs for
ebooks to explain their preference for the digital format, while those who have already been hooked on
ebooks, a sizable 70.4 percent, said they look forward to
more titles to be made into digital versions.
I am not going to buy an
ebook, when I could buy the hardcover for just $ 4
more (I guess it will also depend on whether you are a Prime member, because I forgot about that $ 4 shipping
cost).
Who wants to buy... I'm sorry, «lease»... an
ebook for
more than the
cost of the paperback edition?
So after seeing a post by TechCrunch on a new
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cost the user any money, uploads seamlessly from his Google Drive account, and can be tailored... [Read
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This has been attributed to an increase in the
cost of
ebooks which in some case
costs even
more than the hardcover version of the same.
Now an ereader is beneficial but as the article states people are moving away from
ebooks and I believe it has
more to do than just the
cost factor.
They were promised that digital textbooks would replace print, and that those
ebooks would not only be filled with far
more content than dead trees could provide, but that they would do so at a fraction of the
cost.
This is why a new
ebook almost
costs as much as a hardcover and is normally
more expensive than a paperback.
Since
ebooks have no production
costs, they let you be much
more flexible in pricing, and can be a powerful marketing tool to attract new readers.
We always make sure our
ebook prices are less than our print prices But because the sales are now spread between print and digital the
costs can't be that dramatically different because otherwise we would end up with much less revenue... unless you want to argue if the book were 4.99 we'd possibly sell a lot
more ebooks.
In all of these scenarios, the marginal
cost of production is not going to be even $ 1 for a trade paperback and will rarely be over $ 1.50 for a trade hardcover (obviously the last big brick Harry Potter novels
cost a teeny bit
more due to sheer volume of paper needed to print a 750 page novel, but not * that * much
more), meaning that if we're talking marginal
cost of production as the difference in price between a paperback and an
ebook, we're not talking about a huge difference in price.
I'm not sure I'd spend
more than $ 6.99 on an
ebook (which is the most I've ever spent on one) for generally the reasons you listed above and I see the
cost of producing an
ebook (including self - delivery, no use of gas, etc) as lower.
Yes,
eBooks are a good thing as it makes
more books available to
more readers and without the
cost of printing and distribution.
That may change as
more so - called digital natives progress into higher education and as
ebook reader technology gets better, but for now, 60 % of students would rather pay for a low -
cost printed book than use a free digital version.
Rewards for backers include copies of the novel in all available formats — paperback, hardcover,
ebook, and audiobook — at below retail
cost, plus much
more!
My point — and their's — is that the publishers» arguments that
ebooks «
cost more than people think» is ridiculous.
The average person can't wrap their mind around why an
ebook would
cost more or as much as a paper book.
«
Ebook readership was going up,
more ebooks were being produced, so we thought why not address that segment at probably one - third of the
cost... as opposed to building a big branch library,» Wolff said last week.
As
more and
more writers turn to self - publishing, they're going with a platform that can provide a wide variety of distribution channels and the opportunity for low -
cost ebook gifting and promotion.
In order for publishers to release
more ebooks, however, they have to be able to take a calculated risk, something they can not do — despite the vastly lesser
cost of producing an
ebook over a print edition — unless they believe that readers will come through and buy
ebooks.
Legitimate
ebooks cost hundreds of dollars or
more to create., so another $ 50 isn't going to deter them.
With two plans to choose from — both of which
cost only one euro for the first month — users can access all of the papers» archived back stories, the crosswords, the
more voluminous Sunday edition, and the occasional
ebook offer for only twelve euros a month, with an additional four euros for the premium plan that will include a digital replica of the full print edition each day.
However,
ebooks on the Google Play Store have been found to
cost a bit
more than elsewhere.
Since the program launched it
cost $ 79 to get free two day shipping, one free
eBook a month, access to Amazon Instant Video and a ton
more.
By delaying the Overdrive Kindle release still further but not that to Amazon, publishers sell
more ebooks on Amazon and recoup some of the added
costs that Amazon has forced on them.
Fortunately, there are a few other options out there which
cost nothing but the time to download — they are freeware — and offer a
more user - friendly interface with
eBooks.
Ebook are
more cost - effective to produce and thusly
more affordable for consumers to purchase.
Today it's becoming
more common and
cost effective to publish novellas as
eBooks.
Having written a good non-fiction book that focuses on an aspect of city / urban planning (THAT will help you sleep at night) I have always believed that it would make a great textbook or at least required reading — but for college kids as noted above at over $ 40 for the hardcover it was
cost prohibitive, I now have a way to repackage the
ebook that is on Amazon (with 65 images) and try to create something
more exciting and interesting.