I will still argue that ebooks should cost
less than physical books * because you get less.
«All ebooks will cost
less than the physical books», Kessel told us as he detailed the launch of the new Amazon Kindle store in the UK, before adding: «Customers believe that electronic books should be cheaper than physical books and we agree».
On the one hand it reinforces the idea of ebooks being «worth»
less than physical books and on the other, the price of physical books is too high, why else would retailers be selling them at such large discounts.
Further, e-books * ARE * worth
less than physical books for the very fact that they are not physical.
Ebook prices usually trend much less than soft or hardcover alternatives, so if you have an ebook version, it is often (but not always) priced
less than a physical book.
I hope that at some point in the not too distant future the publishers come to their senses and charge more reasonable prices (say, a little
less than a physical book), but I'm not going to hold my breath on that one.
As far as readers are concerned, the incremental cost to produce more copies of an e-book is zero.So the readers expect an eBook to be priced
less than a physical book.
Not exact matches
But it is actually
less a contribution to critical theory
than a continuation of several themes from earlier
books, including the search for a metaphor or bridge from the self to the
physical world.
He made his first appearance in the comic
book Strange Tales # 110, cover - dated July, 1963 — a former surgeon turned «Sorcerer Supreme» who was billed as «a different kind of super-hero,» operating in a realm that's much
less the
physical than the metaphysical.
In their terms it states that the Amazon list price must be 20 %
less than any retail price of a
PHYSICAL copy of the
book.
Does this mean screen based reading is in some ways
less informative,
less pleasant, or
less of an intellectual exercise
than reading a
physical book?
As a result, Amazon would seem to have
less room for error
than Apple, and while it has plenty of high - margin products to sell in the form of accessories, the rumored mix of Kindle devices and
physical books doesn't seem incredibly enticing, especially when prices for Kindles are so low (that's the stuff you don't mind buying online) and only going lower.
Godin's decision is also backed up by sales successes like Amazon's Kindle e-reader, Apple's iPad, and even reports like this one that suggest the e-
book revolution is redefining the nature of reading itself, and reading e-books means readers are
less isolated
than if they were reading a
physical book.
Customers can buy your eBook without ever having to leave their couch, and they'll spend way
less money doing that
than they would buying
physical books at the mall.
At
physical bookstores, if I found
less than three or four
books I was interested in buying, I'd make a second or third trip down the aisles looking for more
books.
10 dollars is absolutely absurd when you can get them for free in
physical form at a library, not to mention used
books stores where they cost
less than 3 dollars at times..
i've seen
physical books sell for
less than an ebook.
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?
The Kindle DX, with a larger screen
than the regular model, costs $ 489, but digital
books can cost
less than half what
physical ones do.
The actual
physical costs of a print
book — paper, printing, binding, packaging, warehousing, etc. — are
less than 10 % of the cover price, even in small volumes, and drop to
less than a dollar per
book for large volume titles such as bestsellers.
We download
books in
less time
than it takes to pull their
physical cousins off the shelf.
A study found that people retain
less information if read on a tablet or an eReader
than a
physical book.
When you combine this with the fact that «owning» a «new» file has
less value for most people
than owning a new
physical book, you can see the potential for more, perhaps many more, people to shift from buying to borrowing especially if borrowing is free.
So, while an ebook might have
less value to you
than a
physical book, there are definitely specific classes of
books (i.e. those that I read as disposable entertainment) for which an ebook has greater value to me.
The firm accounts for
less than a quarter of
physical book sales (see box).
The waiting thing sounds well and good but if they're going to go from 14.99 down to the 9.99 they are now, I could just go on half.com or ebay or anywhere that sells used
books (or the library, I know, a crazy idea) and get the
physical copy for
less than it would be on my kindle now.
Recommendations from the staff of
physical book stores were used by a little
less than a third of device owners, and about one in five got reading recommendations from libraries or librarians.
Think of software giant Microsoft, whose bulk asset value is determined by intellectual property rather
than physical property; its shares have rarely sold for
less than 10 times
book value.
At first blush, that's a lot of money for an in - app subscription, but it's significantly
less than Colorfiy asks for, and when you consider that a
physical colouring
book with approximately 50 images costs about $ 15, then Recolor's subscription is actually pretty reasonable.