I don't have a problem with
ebooks costing as much as print books or, in general, costing a lot.
The issue from my perspective isn't as much about
ebook cost as it is about quality.
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I usually suggest that authors start by investigating the free or low -
cost services with good reputations in the self - pub community: Createspace, IngramSpark, and Lulu if they want to do print
as well
as ebooks, and Smashwords, Draft2Digital, and the direct - to - ereading - device services (Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing, Barnes & Noble's Nook Press, and Kobo's Kobo Writing Life) if they want to do an
ebook only.
For self - publishing, I usually suggest that authors start by looking at the free or low -
cost services, including Createspace and IngramSpark if they want to do print
as well
as ebooks, and Smashwords, Draft2Digital, and the direct - to - ereading - device services (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo) if they want to do an
ebook only.
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.
Publishing an
ebook that started
as a print book is
cost effective for both indie publishers and traditional publishers.
As the gentleman on top who comment «Ebooks cost roughly the same as a paperback, have less production costs and yet the royalty rates for writers remain the same.&raqu
As the gentleman on top who comment «
Ebooks cost roughly the same
as a paperback, have less production costs and yet the royalty rates for writers remain the same.&raqu
as a paperback, have less production
costs and yet the royalty rates for writers remain the same.»
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.
Your average
ebook,
as priced by a traditional publisher like Hachette,
costs $ 14.99.
Ebooks cost roughly the same
as a paperback, have less production
costs and yet the royalty rates for writers remain the same.
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.
Experts pegged the high rate of piracy
as far
as academic
ebooks are concerned to the high price tag that these typically
cost.
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.
If print
cost $ 20 and
eBook cost $ 15 how can you justify that
eBook price
as worth $ 1?
As it stands, libraries budget to purchase physical books for their shelves, and DPLA wants to ensure that there are no higher
costs associated with providing the
ebook edition of the book.
This is why a new
ebook almost
costs as much
as a hardcover and is normally more expensive than a paperback.
Amazon is all set to unleash its Prime services in the UK which will enable Britishers to avail of unlimited access to Amazon's video library, next - day deliveries and
ebooks downloads all
as part of a single package that
cost # 79 a year.
As Marcel Welman, kalahari.com e-books manager, explained, the country has already started to see the positive effects of lowering of internet
costs and making available affordable
ebook reading devices.
As I said, it doesn't
cost a cent to upload your
ebooks.
And if all you need is to have a book ready to be printed at a low
cost or available at no
cost as an
ebook, this option is viable.
But libraries don't advertise their books
as costing $ 0.00 for members and $ x.xx for non-members
as Amazon does with Kindle
ebooks.
On reading the product of all our hard work, each one of us can see areas within the book where we could / should have made a correction, or either added or deleted a section.Releasing our work
as an
ebook, means we can make those corrections at no
cost while the big six can not.
Anything over a fiver is unjustified
as there is not paper or ink or manufacturing
costs for copies after the initial production of an
ebook.
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.
So I think Hachette, even with its overhead, could manage the extra
cost of paying 100 % the price of
ebooks for the time of negociations - provided Hachette does not want the negociations to last until 2015,
as it seems the case.
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.
I kept the
ebook price well below my paperback on the belief I have held
as a reader — that the
ebook costs a lot less than a paperback to produce and distribute.
I am not published by Macmillan but plenty of my friends and colleagues are and they do not deserve their books being mucked about with while Amazon asserts itself
as the only game in town or Macmillan digs in over how many dollars an
ebook needs to
cost.
I think it's ridiculous for an
ebook to
cost the same
as a print - version trade paperback.
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).
The average person can't wrap their mind around why an
ebook would
cost more or
as much
as a paper book.
Since those publishers were forced to abandon the «agency pricing» model, in which the publishers dictate to the retailers how much the book will
cost, they have renegotiated with something called Agency 2, which essentially lets the retailers set their prices for
ebooks as long
as the total discount over time doesn't exceed thirty percent.
«
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.
Despite the fact that
ebook readers are not consuming paper, ink, or fuels associated with shipping
costs, they would now pay the same price for a digital download
as they would be required to if they had bought print.
Some of the features that qualify
ebooks as enhanced include audio voiceover, embedded graphics, and a massive complement of full - color graphics that would be
cost prohibitive in a print book.
But with the variety of companies who have begun to offer legitimate,
cost effective ways of offering readers a print edition
as well, there's no reason not to release a book simultaneously in both
ebook and print.
Essentially, BookBaby, has found that charging legitimate authors an upfront fee to process and distribute their
ebooks may cause some to ultimately opt for one of the sites that makes its profit out of royalties rather than pay an initial investment; however, this same business model means that spam and piracy can be kept to a minimum
as get - rich - quick scammers are loathe to shell out the upfront
cost.
Two, people keep getting distracted by the
cost of
ebooks,
as opposed to the price.
Some of this is sunk
cost, some is ongoing, but unless you believe (
as I do) that for now the best way to sell
ebooks is to give them away in order to increase print - book sales, then there's no good reason to charge these
costs to the
ebook's balance sheet.
And although the PPB
costs are eliminated, there are still various
costs associated with publishing an
ebook, such
as cover design, layout & formatting, editing (professional), marketing and other miscellaneous
costs (legal, distribution, author assistant etc) all which will be shouldered by the author (or publisher).
For our first season we'll be hitting big ticket topics such
as a commentary on the current publishing landscape, how to optimize your book metadata for sales, how to sell your book to indie bookstores,
ebooks vs. print books, and how much it
costs to self - publish.
And then there's the
ebook -
as - an - app potential for the iPad and tablet market, which is indisputably cool and the wave of the future, but also requires authors to become software developers, with far greater up - front
costs and not
as big a revenue stream yet.
But of course let's not forget there are free
ebooks & audiobooks
as well, so if we jump into this no -
cost bandwagon, than this issue wouldn't be any issue at all.