Trends in ebook prices

[tompe]

Originally Posted by fjtorres

Well, since you're asking:
http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2013...est-level-yet/


To the surprise of nobody who actually bothered to look at the numbers, the sweet spot for ebook profitability lies in the $2.99-7.99 range, not in the $9.99-14.99 range. Which is to say, sub-paperback pricing.

That must depend on the book. For example Reacher books are very expensive but I still believe they are very profitable.

[elemenoP]

Originally Posted by tompe

That must depend on the book. For example Reacher books are very expensive but I still believe they are very profitable.

That's because Lee Child is a Random House author, Random House has not settled yet. You can expect those prices to go down after the settlement.

Take a look at the chart at the bottom of the OP's link. Of the Top 25 ebooks, only books by Penguin and Random House are priced over $7.49. Those are the two publishers who are still under agency pricing.

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[tompe]

Originally Posted by elemenoP

That's because Lee Child is a Random House author, Random House has not settled yet. You can expect those prices to go down after the settlement.

Take a look at the chart at the bottom of the OP's link. Of the Top 25 ebooks, only books by Penguin and Random House are priced over $7.49. Those are the two publishers who are still under agency pricing.

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But these books are not going down to paperback prices after the paperback is out. And that mean that they earn more money having it that way.

[dkperez]

Unfortunately, it appears that a lot of the authors I'm after are either Penguin or RH too 'cause so far I'm not seeing significant price reductions for James Patterson, John Sanford, and a bunch of the other folks that are on my 100+ book list of "would like to get these, but absolutely refuse to pay the
ridiculously high prices". And after his whining rant, I've added Scott Turow to the list of "not interested in buying at any price" list.

Recently, William Kent Krueger spoke at our local library. I wish I'd known in time to attend. I've read many of his books, and I'd have liked to ask why he was SPEAKING at an institution he and his publisher (as I understand it, Simon & Schuster typically refuses to sell ebooks to libraries) refuse to support by making his ebooks available there...

[BeccaPrice]

I think Nora Roberts is a Penguin author, but she's the only one of my short "buy in hardback" author list that is.

Lois McMaster Bujold is a Baen author - alas, she writes so slowly!. I've got all her non-Vorkosigan books in hardback now, and would like the Vorkosigan ones in hardback too, except that I don't think they're available in that format.