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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.