Amazon has published its Q4 2010 financial results, and has revealed that it is now selling more Kindle
ebooks than paperback books.
Amazon UK now sells more
ebooks than paperback and hardback print editions combined.
However, any author who turns his back on readers, who makes readers wait a year to get decently priced books, who makes readers pay more for
ebooks than the paperback price, who trumpets how much more important Publishers are — Well, that author can look forward to some real character - building experiences once the revolution has run its course.
I would pay the same for an ebook as a paperback, but I resent having to pay more for
the ebook than the paperback.
Taylor, meanwhile, is selling more
ebooks than paperbacks by six to one.
The biggest bookseller on the planet, Amazon, announced May 18th that it now sells more
ebooks than paperbacks and hardcovers combined.
Well apparently formatting is so hard and expensive that tradpub needs to charge more for
a ebook than a paperback....
Most successful self - published authors sell far more
ebooks than paperbacks.
In January 2011, Amazon announced that, for the first time, it was selling more
eBooks than paperbacks.
Not exact matches
I wish that Logos would become competitive here and sell their digital books for significantly less
than the
paperback books, and maybe even do some sort of price matching with Amazon Kindle
eBooks.
You are right that production and distribution costs per unit are less for
ebooks than for
paperbacks, but authors have the same 2 % to 12.5 % earnings of the list price of the book.
When I look through the Kindle store and see
ebooks priced higher
than the
paperback and hardcover, it seems to me that they are trying to push readers back to that more traditional medium.
Who wants to buy... I'm sorry, «lease»... an
ebook for more
than the cost of the
paperback edition?
The numbers speak for themselves: So far, the trilogy has sold more
than 250,000 copies, in both
paperbacks and
eBooks.
Ebooks cause no storage costs and very small delivery costs, can be sold with fewer intermediaries... they should be significantly cheaper
than paperbacks, all the time.
Then often the
ebook price is just 2 - 3 Euros lower then
than the price for the hardcover book, later when you can buy the
paperback it is usually cheaper
than the
ebook, because that was priced after the hardcover and since book prices are fixed, it usually can not be changed easily.
This is why a new
ebook almost costs as much as a hardcover and is normally more expensive
than a
paperback.
You can find books, where the price for the
ebook is actually higher
than for the
paperback, so why should someone buy an inferior product (in terms of ownership)?
I agree with Arphaxad but would like to add that I can many times buy a
paperback book cheaper
than the
eBook.
It's made creating
ebooks and the few
paperbacks I've worked easier
than any free program I've ever used.
You might have noticed that
eBooks tend to cost less
than paperback books — there's a general consumer expectation that they should be a bit cheaper.
According to Tracy, most of the
paperback sales are in trade
paperback, rather
than the smaller mass - market or pocket edition — those have mostly been replaced by the
ebook.
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.
With an
ebook reader, you can fit your personal library on a thinner -
than -
paperback - size device — one that's easy to toss in a bag and hold one - handed — and recharge only every few weeks.
In short, the argument that
ebook versions of a novel should cost way less
than paperback novels due to a lower marginal cost of production simply doesn't match the actual numbers.
I've seen examples on Amazon where the
ebooks are actually MORE EXPENSIVE
than new paper copies (primarily with trade
paperbacks).
Hmm, going back to what my Tech Guy mentioned about a good
ebook price being 75 % of the paper version, I wonder if some of the difference we see at the higher end is the publisher comparing the price to a hardcover or trade
paperback version rather
than the mass
paperback format.
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.
Ebooks could have been a transformative sea change in how we read books but instead are nothing more
than a second - rate alternative to cheap
paperbacks.
In practice,
ebooks are regularly priced similarly or even more expensively
than their own
paperback versions.
An
ebook reader is small and light, and less fragile
than a
paperback.
The titillating trilogy sold more
than 30 million copies between March and June, with sales evenly divided between the trade
paperback and
ebook editions.
I never understood why
ebooks are costlier
than say a
paperback, the cost of printing and paper being removed and the thing that we don't actually own it but just a license to read the
eBook.
From must to nice: — fast page turns —
paperback size, B - format, A5 (between 13 × 20 and 15 × 22 cm)-- less
than 250 g — epub, pdf, and image formats — simple drag and drop USB sync (no proprietary app)-- waterproof, drop proof — fast cold boot — cloud sync — note taking — pressure sensitive sketches — use as external DP / HDMI monitor — web browser good enough for Wikipedia offline — synchronize audio book with
ebook
Not only is it easier and less expensive to buy
ebooks, but I far prefer reading on my Kindle Paperwhite
than reading
paperbacks and hard covers.
He was originally going to buy the books but discovered that the
ebooks cost only a few dollars less
than the
paperbacks.
Anna I understand your frustrations with pirated
eBooks but the problem is that current system is not fair to most readers either, because of all the restrictions we don't really own
eBooks we bought and despite that we have to pay for them more
than for
paperbacks.
Ebooks generally look worse
than your average trade
paperback or hardcover book.
I would happily pay even $ 7 for many books, rather
than the usual formula of $ 30 or so for a hardback, $ 15 or so for a
paperback or
ebook (usually only a few percent different.)
There are more
than four million
ebooks and
paperbacks available on Amazon but less
than 200,000 audiobooks -LSB-...]
Amazon is now selling more
eBooks than they are
paperbacks and hardbacks - has that changed the way you work?
Their profit margins on hardcovers are bigger
than paperbacks and
ebooks, ergo it's in their interest to protect hardcover sales.
But I've passed over quite a few books recently because the
ebook was dearer
than the
paperback and I wanted something to read right then.
Last year Amazon reported that they sold more
ebooks than they did
paperbacks.
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.
My novels run long, which means my trade
paperbacks have always been a lot more expensive
than the
ebooks.
Do you think being published in
ebook format is any less exciting
than being published in a real physical book, be it hardback or mass market
paperback?
They tend to read really fast and a lot of books, so because the
eBook tends to be a little less expensive
than the actual
paperback or hardcover of the book, they can actually consume the content at a faster rate and you know get their fill of all their favorite authors.
He explained that most indies published
ebooks and they sold a lot more
than paperbacks.
Frequently even months and years after a book's release, the
paperback is less expensive
than the
ebook.