Ebooks are praised for their convenience, but their use in libraries has actually been more restricted
than print books due to licensing agreements.
So the question is, is an ebook priced higher
than a print book due to Big 5 setting their ebook prices substantively higher than what was set by the market (okay, fine, by Amazon, mostly) or is it due to Amazon's standard discounting practices?
Not exact matches
BoraZ:
Due to diversity of styles, I think our
book is more fun
than the collections from
print sources, traditional format with less experimentation.
They're not all green energy,
due to the minerals that go into the electronics that most people prefer to read their eBooks on, but because they are meant to be used many times over, their impact is drastically less
than that of
print books.
Under this strategy, Amazon decides that it will demand no more discount
than offered to any other vendor, for any purpose *; it will do everything in its power to meet author and indendent publisher demands; and it will send a bouquet and basket of puppies to midlist authors who place their out - of -
print books on Kindle, in addition to the royalties
due (and a holiday bonus).
If paper
books are so expensive
due to
printing, ink, distribution etc etc then ebooks should be less expensive
than paper
books, not more.
He finds that the German customer is prepared to pay higher prices (of course this doesn't mean that Germans don't expect to pay less for an e-
book than they would for a
printed book,
due to fixed price laws.)