I have to admit I've never seen that in an indie — any more than I've seen obvious OCR errors like I have from
trad published e-books because they can't be bothered to proof the e-book after scanning in the hard copy.
Most
trad published e-books are priced so high (often as high if not more than the printed book) that they are pricing themselves out of the competition.
Not exact matches
Have to disagree with some of the points on
trad publishing though - For the pros you neglected to mention that the publishers distribute your book to all bookstores and
e-books sites (hitting two marketing areas) A huge Pro considering most authors are battling to get their book seen and traditional
publishing can do that.
Second, with self -
publishing, authors tend to price their
e-books lower than the
trad - publishers and those low prices tend to earn much more money.
Pricing of Traditionally -
Published E-Books Trad - pub e-books are usually priced close to the paperback price (and sometimes a
E-Books Trad - pub
e-books are usually priced close to the paperback price (and sometimes a
e-books are usually priced close to the paperback price (and sometimes above!).
The only reason
trad published authors don't is that most
trad publishers do NOT push the
e-book and they price it so high that people see more «value» in the printed version, especially the hardcover.