Plus
ebooks cost almost as much as real books, you are not really saving money on books when you buy an ebooks - unless if you go to the Pirate sites
Not exact matches
The additional
cost to future sales from having driven more people to the cheaper
ebook format would be
almost impossible to calculate.
Recognizing that the
cost of textbooks was out of control
almost two decades ago, we created CampusBooks.com, a price - comparison website where students can see all of their options for used and new print books, rentals,
ebooks, and even local library inventory.
This is why a new
ebook almost costs as much as a hardcover and is normally more expensive than a paperback.
eBooks especially
cost almost nothing to produce and are far easier to publish than many people believe.
To ARC or not to ARC One of the advantages of being indie is that you can give out as many ecopies as you like at no
cost (I send out
almost exclusively
ebooks, not paper copies).
Due to their low
cost to produce and since
almost anyone with a computer or Internet connection can produce one,
ebooks may not have the same value in buyers» minds.
A recent report on pricing from the Douglas County (CO) Library System demonstrated that an
ebook that typically
costs a consumer just over $ 10 can
cost a library
almost $ 50.
But for two years now I have read
almost esclusively
ebooks, WHICH I PuRCHASE, often at higher
costs than paperbacks, and I read over 100 books a year.
The price of an
eBook in many cases now approaches — or even exceeds — the price of the same book in paper even though there are
almost no incremental
costs to produce each additional
eBook unit.
The average
ebook edition will
cost $ 25.00, which is fairly affordable when you compare it to Random House's digital books that
cost almost $ 85 per title.
This title is not yet available as an
ebook, a fact which
almost cost it one star in the review.
It
costs Amazon
almost nothing to make and distribute 100 copies of an
ebook file to sell to 100 different customers.
This
eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no
cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever.
I've got a wife and kid to support and even though I really enjoy reading Sanderson and Butcher and some others, my mind goes to the
cost of groceries when I'm faced with
almost $ 30 for a hardback, $ 20 for a
ebook or paperback.
Ok, from what I can see with
ebooks, the price point they make such a big deal about is
almost irrelevant because you have no «replacement
cost.»
Prior to agency, Amazon was giving up
almost the entirety of their margin on Big Five
ebooks, and selling them on average at
cost.)
one blog post comes to mind that attempted to claim
almost 1/3 of the
cost of
ebooks was related to «digital warehousing».
This is the
almost perfect example of how one might expect a pure
ebook play to develop over time, publishing
ebooks to a time sensitive market while selling the rights to someone else for a paperback edition, enabling them to keep stock
costs lows and cash flow high and letting someone else worry about the odd economics of the traditional model!
You are right there is
almost no
cost to the publishers to produce an
ebook and the abysmal royalty they give out is ridiculous.
You will also find another way to
almost eliminate additional court filings in the Custody Agreement
Ebook and the associated court
costs that come with going back to court.