I use BAM already
for my dead tree books.
I prefer shopping
for dead tree books on Amazon.
I can't remember ever paying full retail
for a dead tree book on Amazon.
Not exact matches
The
book's currently selling
for $ 6.99 on Kindle or $ 16
for a
dead -
tree copy, which is a low price to pay
for this kind of analysis and insight straight from the horse's mouth.
I currently buy a fair percentage of
dead -
tree books, especially
for lengthy or dense tomes, purely because of my dissatisfaction with current form - factors — namely the lack of an extra inch or two of screen.
And since we have an Amazon Prime Account (worth it's weight in gold), I never have to pay
for shipping (and I mean awesome free, two day shipping, none of this super saver wait
for 2 weeks after you've spent over $ 25 and MAYBE get it then crap), making it ALWAYS cheaper to order my
dead tree books from them.
It gives you far higher per -
book earnings than traditionally published authors are receiving (even those whose ebooks are selling
for $ 10 +), it gives the readers a deal when compared to most traditionally published ebooks, and it's often considered a fair price by those who feel that digital
books should cost less than the
dead -
tree variety since paper, ink, and shipping aren't a part of the equation.
He's also frustrated by the very medium of
dead -
tree publishing itself, since when consumers buy a
book they're really paying
for the author's ideas and a
book is «a form that's hard to spread» and electronically he can reach «10 to 50 times as many people.»
Libraries will always be a place to get information from all sources — most of the foot traffic into public libraries today comes from people coming in
for internet computers, not coming in to read a
dead -
tree books.
They want $ 15
for the e-copy of a Hot New Bestseller — same as the heavily - discounted price of the
dead tree copy, so that the e-copy does not compete with the same
book in
dead tree, and Macmillan can recoup their substantial investment in the
book.
It will be interesting to see what the other big publishing houses decide to do, I have a feeling your going to see the companies who do nt push
for equivalent ebook to physical
book pricing will have higher sales and in the end make more money off of ebooks AND «
dead tree»
books as well thanks to word of mouth from ebook readers.
so the publisher wants hard cover or near hardcover prices,
for a product that in effect is all gravy
for them, they already did the work to get the
book edited and formated and proof read (
for the
dead tree version), effectively they want the same $
for a less valuable product.
I understand very well the mentality that a «
dead tree»
book is «something» that people pay
for without argument because it's a material object while an ebook seems to be regarded (even by many fans of the medium) as something that costs «nothing» and should therefore be free or very cheap, which brings me to...
It seems to me that an ebook has all the same publishing costs as a
dead tree book except
for the actual printing, shipping and warehousing.
I also like the way you can turn pages by swiping across the page — it's a much more natural gesture, especially
for a device that's trying to emulate a
dead -
tree book.
~ Robert Chazz Chute is the author of Self - help
for Stoners, Murders Among
Dead Trees, Crack the Indie Author Code, Six Seconds, Write Your
Book: Aspire to Inspire, Bigger Than Jesus, Higher Than Jesus and the zombie apocalypse serial, This Plague of Days.
We'll get to the options
for dead -
tree books later this month.
So I have to say that, although I think it's highly likely that ebooks will replace
dead tree books over the next few years and reduce them to the status that vinyl records currently enjoy in the world (curios
for a minority of buyers, sold by specialist shops), I do also see that paperbacks still have a place in the world, and that
for a while longer people will still want them.
Dead -
tree Publishers may be gigantic, old, and unwieldy, but thier primary interest is to sell
books for a profit.
Digital offerings have a long way to go to match the revenue generated by sales of
dead tree books, but it's never been harder
for small shops to compete with bulk - buying, discount - driven rivals like Amazon.
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