First, I felt that an ebook shouldn't cost more than 70 % the cost of the least
expensive print version of the book because once the pre-production is done, there are no further production costs for an ebook.
I produce paperbacks for 99 % of my books, the only exception being the collection of first chapters of my novels, a perma - free sampler which would be at cross purposes as a more
expensive print version.
Not exact matches
The cheaper
version of Desktop Metal's 3D
printing system will ship to customers in fall while the more
expensive version will debut next year.
If sales pick up, and you think there's demand for it, use the proceeds to pay for more
expensive versions like a paperback, where you have to pay for design and
print distribution too.
Mass - Market Paperback Smaller, less
expensive version of a book that is usually
printed well after the hardcover and trade paperback
versions have been made available.
The
expensive software to do desktop publishing to prepare a book for
printing is: the full
version of Photoshop CS for converting photos to either grayscale and saving them in an 8 bit format, Adobe Acrobat for saving the interior of the book, or buying Book cover pro which will work with the Lightning Source cover generator.
Because ebooks can be less
expensive to produce, some authors use them to help determine interest in their content before committing to a
printed version or use them as free digital giveaways to help build their author platform before producing
print copies.
Given the fact that it's much more difficult and
expensive to produce a paperback
version than an ebook, you may find yourself wondering whether it's worth the trouble to produce a
print version at all.
An audiobook of a bestseller is more likely to be more
expensive than the
print version — and in the same range as the cost of an audiobook you'd purchase on a CD in a bookstore.
I also refuse to buy and e-book when it is within a certain margin of the hard cover and, yes, the other day I saw a new release where the e-book was more
expensive than the
print version.
But, to the shock of many, students, to this point, have seemed to prefer more
expensive,
print versions of their textbooks.
They continue to be stuck on the
expensive but always well produced
printed versions.
They have said that it will be split into three «issues,» so if they charge the standard $ 1.99 for each, the iPad
version could be more
expensive than
print, which would certainly turn the standard model upside down.
3DSimo's second - generation 3D
printing pen, the Simo Mini, is a much smaller, and less
expensive version of its original device.