This has been attributed to an increase in the cost of ebooks which in some case costs even more
than the hardcover version of the same.
The Amazon - led $ 9.99 retail price point for the most popular e-books troubled the Publisher Defendants because, at $ 9.99, most of these e-book titles were priced substantially lower
than hardcover versions of the same title.
LF: I feel irked when the Kindle edition of a book costs more
than the hardcover version.
Not exact matches
From start to finish, I probably spent less
than ten thousand dollars for three formats: a
hardcover, a paperback, and a Kindle
version.
eBooks have been all the rage the world over with major retailers such as Amazon stating it has been consistently selling more ebooks
than the corresponding
hardcover versions.
Hmm, going back to what my Tech Guy mentioned about a good ebook price being 75 % of the paper
version, I wonder if some of the difference we see at the higher end is the publisher comparing the price to a
hardcover or trade paperback
version rather
than the mass paperback format.
I like printing a few
hardcover versions through Lulu (because it's easier and cheaper to set up
than Lightning Source) and taking some media kit shots of me in a bookstore (doesn't have to be an official «book signing» — you can even put a few on the bestseller shelf and take pictures of them there).
Times have changed so that its the digital
version of books that are more in demand
than anytime before in the history of
hardcover books.
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... [Read more...]
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.
In many cases the
hardcover is actually cheaper
than the digital
version and this is primarily due to predatory pricing.
Anne Diebel: Typically you approach the design of the
hardcover version of a book differently
than the paperback.
So the
hardcover version has a different ISBN
than the paperback
version; the eBook
version carries a different number
than the large - print edition, and so on.
This would be much cheaper
than purchasing the Kindle hardware, and would enable me to enjoy the economy of purchasing the Kindle
version of a book instead of its
hardcover or even the trade press soft cover edition!
Well, at least the kindle
version now costs less
than the
hardcover, which is proving ever more rare these days.
For about $ 10 more
than the
hardcover price, we should get the
hardcover, eBook and audio
versions together.
So, read it you want to find out what happened to Carpenter after Mussolini was last seen crawling down Satan's leg on his (Benito's) escape from Hell, but don't buy the
hardcover version unless you can find it in a remainder bin for less
than what the paperback will cost you.
I think it should have special appeal to the amateur market because Inkling's format allows people to ease into the book piecemeal, rather
than commit to the whole thing (the
hardcover version of Pro Chef is a behemoth, with a list price of $ 75 and clocking in at 1232 pages.)