Not exact matches
And I don't think I'd pay more than $ 6.99 for an
ebook because I believe they
're worth less than a paperback for all the reasons I listed above.
I read
ebooks that
were free or I paid
less than $ 2.99 that I felt
were worth more!
That
's why people
are so upset and largely why
ebooks are perceived as
worth less than print books.
The future with an enforced «everybody selling at our selected price» future means Amazon and B&N sell
less Kindles and Nooks because the book lovers
are going to see the discounted HC at $ 18 and compare that to an
eBook at $ 15 (plus cost of device) and deem it not
worth buying a Kindle or Nook edition with its limitations.
I agree they should cost
less than printed books, but to say there
is no design involved with
ebooks is completely wrong, and I don't see Germaine Greer offering e-versions of her own books for pennies, so it looks like she
is just talking crap in an attempt to get a few more seconds
worth of fame (again).
Its very
ebook - ness must have negative
worth if people
are only willing to buy it in the case where it costs
less than any dead tree edition of the book.
On the one hand it reinforces the idea of
ebooks being «
worth»
less than physical books and on the other, the price of physical books
is too high, why else would retailers
be selling them at such large discounts.
«The
ebook market, despite having grown
less than expected,
is now
worth more than 5 percent of the total, while the digital market as a whole
is 13 percent, while in 2011 it
was 5 percent.»
It
's also
worth noting that the vast majority of authors fall short on best practices (witness the low adoption of
ebook preorders, even though preorders
are proven to sell more books, or witness the large number of self published authors who design amateur - looking cover images despite the dearth of low - cost professionals who for $ 200 or
less can make their cover look amazing).