Frequently a new ebook will be more
expensive than the hardcover or paperback.
A few years ago I found that the e-book for one of my favourite authors was more
expensive than the hardcover.
Ebooks may not take up any room, and genre fiction can be less
expensive than hardcover books, but library budgets have shrunk.
It makes the value proposition that much better, as anyone who reads more than just occasionally can almost certainly recoup the cost of the device through the fact that e-books are generally less
expensive than hardcovers or paperbacks — and many great, classic e-books are free.
Not exact matches
This is why a new ebook almost costs as much as a
hardcover and is normally more
expensive than a paperback.
He read Swimming and loved it, and agreed to reissue it in formats that are much less
expensive to produce and sell
than a
hardcover edition.
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.
I've purchased over a hundred books since they changed the pricing and almost all of them were more
expensive for the the ebook
than the discounted
hardcover or paperback.
Are there authors whose readers really, really want the bound copy, even if (as for
hardcovers), it's more
expensive than the e-book?
I'd be prepared to wager that consumers are more
than happy to choose an e-book over a more
expensive hardcover, but I question whether that preference holds up when the price point is the same for either format, as with agency - priced * paperbacks.