Thread: Price Wars/ E-Book Cost
View Single Post
Old 10-26-2009, 08:23 PM   #13
fugazied
Wizard
fugazied once ate a cherry pie in a record 7 seconds.fugazied once ate a cherry pie in a record 7 seconds.fugazied once ate a cherry pie in a record 7 seconds.fugazied once ate a cherry pie in a record 7 seconds.fugazied once ate a cherry pie in a record 7 seconds.fugazied once ate a cherry pie in a record 7 seconds.fugazied once ate a cherry pie in a record 7 seconds.fugazied once ate a cherry pie in a record 7 seconds.fugazied once ate a cherry pie in a record 7 seconds.fugazied once ate a cherry pie in a record 7 seconds.fugazied once ate a cherry pie in a record 7 seconds.
 
fugazied's Avatar
 
Posts: 1,305
Karma: 1958
Join Date: Jan 2009
Device: iPod Touch
Quote:
Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
The list price for an ebook is whatever the publisher says it is.
And that is why all of the conjecture about price is a bit baseless. However if they sell ebooks in similar ways to paperbacks, the $9.99 titles probably don't have as much markup but obtain profit via sheer volume (eg. $9.99 on popular titles form large publishers).

I think given the sheer practicalities of storing and shipping an ebook and often skipping a middle man wholesaler/retailer they would HAVE to be more profitable than traditional paperbacks (perhaps not as much as hardcovers which have an often ludicrous markup).
fugazied is offline   Reply With Quote