They say «buy this book» at the full price / similar
price as the physical book.
I won't pay for a digital book that is the same
price as a physical book.
A major eBook pricing mistake we see regularly is authors selling their eBook for the same
price as their physical books.
Not exact matches
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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.
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.
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.
The
prices for some of the e-books cost the same
as going into a
book store and buying a
physical copy.
«
As part of the unlawful agreements, and seeking to leverage its dominant position via the Apple iOS platform, Apple and the publishers agreed that
prices for ebooks that were offered through the iBookstore would be calculated by a formula tied to
physical books,» the lawsuit said.
Further, e-
Books are cheap compared to the
physical books (not always, of course)
as most of the eBooks are
priced less.
Again, while the
physical size of the
book is something that will need to be specified, if it has no effect on the
price of the
book or the percentage splits, I'm baffled
as to why it's included.
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 boo
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 boo
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.
«We are worried about the development of practices that do not exist for
physical books, such
as collusion between publishers on
prices,» EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said in a statement.
So they seem intent on stalling e-book adoption
as long
as possible (
as evidenced by them trying to raise
prices in the face of clear consumer outcry, attaching invasive DRM to their titles, disabling TTS access, delaying e-book releases, and generally releasing poorly - formatted scans of
physical books).
On a digital store front such
as Amazon, people can see the
price of a
physical book and an e-
book side by side.
(Amazon obviously disagrees, and
as a consumer I'd prefer to see that reduced cost reflected in a lower sales
price compared to
physical books, since I'm getting a generally less useful product.)
According to evidence later presented at an antitrust trial, the publishers feared that Bezos's carnival barking about a $ 9.99 digital
price would ultimately reduce the plausible
price of a
physical book, further undermining large retailers like Barnes & Noble,
as well
as the many hundreds of surviving independent bookstores on which publishers depended.
In our heads, at least, readers tend to view ebooks
as a different entity with a different
price point than a
physical book, especially hardcover.
In part, this is due to the fact that lower e-
book pricing was previously demonstrated to have a deleterious effect on hardback and other printed
book sales,
as well
as harming
physical bookstores.
Luckily for them both, the $ 8 - 10 Paperback is actually competitively
priced vis - a-vis e-
books with the value add of being a tangible,
physical good, and with a little effort I suspect that the $ 12 - 20 TPB could easily supplant the Hardcover
as the «lead» version of paper
books.
But with respect to the agency discount, Amazon demands that all non-Big-Six trade publishers sell it their ebook and
physical book wares under the old trade discount model, which requires only that Amazon buy inventory at roughly 50 % off the publisher's suggested list
price (the discounts vary by publisher and can run
as high
as 55 %) and is silent on
pricing — allowing Amazon to discount
as steeply
as it wishes to win over customers.
Amazon used to pay publishers a wholesale
price for e -
books, just
as it does for
physical copies.
As part of the unlawful agreements, and seeking to leverage its installed user base and dominant position via the Apple iOS platform, Apple and the Publisher Defendants agreed that
prices for Publisher Defendants» eBooks that were offered through the iBookstore would be calculated by a formula tied to
physical books.
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physical version of Link's in - game scarf and a
physical treasure box with audio.