She gets that ebook readers are not the same
people as hardcover buyers!
Not exact matches
By high pricing on ebooks, they are losing some impulse and cost conscience buyers, but by lower pricing they would likely be driving
people who would normally buy the more expensive
hardcover over to the ebook market, and not just for the book in question but for future purchases
as well.
I agree, but at the same point having a free ebook with the purchase of a
hardcover book would encourage more
people to spend a bit more on the first edition book and have the ebook
as a backup.
In reality, many of the
people who have switched to ebooks (such
as myself in about 99.9 % of my reading) would not be terribly interested in paying $ 25.95 for an ebook, nor would it force them to run to the bookstore (or Amazon) to thus buy their favorite authors in
hardcover.
People have said that mass - market paperback sales are the most susceptible to being replaced by e-book sales, since they are generally fiction novels that people read once and then discard or donate — as opposed to hardcovers that people like to display on their booksh
People have said that mass - market paperback sales are the most susceptible to being replaced by e-book sales, since they are generally fiction novels that
people read once and then discard or donate — as opposed to hardcovers that people like to display on their booksh
people read once and then discard or donate —
as opposed to
hardcovers that
people like to display on their booksh
people like to display on their bookshelves.
This Christmas, over a million
people connected to Kobo and they were all downloading several eBooks per second — enough
hardcover books that would be stacked
as high
as 50 Empire State Buildings.
People blame the publishers when they see
hardcovers cost the same
as or less than e-books, but that's an image Amazon is able to manipulate behind the scenes because it's willing to sell
hardcovers below cost.
This is not too surprising, since the growth of e-books is most likely to impact sales of mass - market paperbacks,
as MMPs are the least expensive print offering, their release is delayed after
hardcovers (
as some publishers do with e-books), and most closely filled the role that e-books are starting to fill for
people: day - to - day fiction reading,
as opposed to
hardcover cookbooks, graphic books, or bookshelf display items.