Sentences with phrase «same costs of print books»
On the other hand, ebooks don't carry the same costs of print books.
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Jamie LaRue, director of Colorado's Douglas County Libraries and a member of the ALA's digital committee recently told Good e-Reader that «What tax payer is going to believe that his local library actually paid nearly $ 50 for a single digital copy of a New York Times bestselling title, when the same book in print costs a library around $ 12?»
IIRC, to add to the entertainment Kris Rusch mentioned late last year that not only did tradpubbers raise the price of their ebooks, but Amazon discounted the print versions of the same books to LESS than the cost of the newly - raised tradpub ebook prices.
While a print edition might cost $ 10 with a 7 % tax, a digital edition of the same book would also cost $ 10, but be taxed as high as 19 %.
According to a 2013 study from American University linguistics professor Naomi Baron for her book Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World, if the cost was the same for print and e-books, 87 percent of undergraduate and graduate students surveyed said they would prefer to read paper books for school than e-books and 92 percent found paper books the easiest medium to concentrate in.
, if the cost was the same for print and e-books, 87 percent of undergraduate and graduate students surveyed said they would prefer to read paper books for school than e-books and 92 percent found paper books the easiest medium to concentrate in.
In all seriousness, without this published price list, what tax payer is going to believe that his local library actually paid nearly $ 50 for a single digital copy of a New York Times bestselling title, when the same book in print costs a library around $ 12?
Part of readers» refusal to spend the same money for an eBook edition stems from readers» awareness that it costs less to produce eBooks than print books.
Compare a 5,000 offset print run of a typical novel, which may cost $.50 per copy, to a POD print of the same book, which may cost up to $ 5.00 per copy.
She said: «Why would people pay the same for a virtual book, with none of the graphic design, physical presence, production and distribution costs accepted as part of the printed kind?
I have a hard time understanding how a Kindle book can cost the same as a paper book considering the costs of printing and distribution.
Most of the time the eBook will cost me the same amount (or close) as the printed book.
Using the same rate for both print and e-book would undoubtedly result in a smaller share of profits for the author, especially where the upfront development costs of the book have been fully amortized in a previous print edition.
When that happens, it will be another nail in the coffin of the traditional publishing houses. I laugh when they say that the cost of producing ebooks is the same as print books ignoring the cost of paper and shipping while pointing out the cost of things like cover designs.
Further to this, whilst almost a quarter (23 %) of book buyers think that print books cost too much, just 16 % feel the same about e-books.