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Originally Posted by J. Strnad
I think that $2.99 is more appropriate. You have to figure, with a non-DRMed book, that there's going to be pass-around circulation, so how much are you actually receiving for a $0.99 book per reader? If you're getting about $0.40/book, that's maybe a dime per reader? A nickel? (I read once that the average pass-around for a paper book is 7 readers. I have no idea what it is for an ebook with no copy protection.)
At three bucks, maybe you'll get $1.50 or so per book sold after various discounts, which is maybe 25 cents, more or less, per reader. Jeez, that's like begging for spare change...people pay that to park on a public street for half an hour. Is that unreasonable? I don't think so.
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I pass around pbooks like crazy and so do my friends. .
It's just much easier to purchase and have ebooks on your own shelf & computer (especially with those ebooks below $3 and doubly so with ebooks at less than $1)
I think you will see some "sharing" of ebooks when the purchase price is above $5. My friends and I don't even bother sharing at that price either. I always have something else to read or even go for a pbook if the ebook price is above $5.
The very low purchase price, puts those ebooks in the "why bother to share? just buy it" category for me.
I really don't think ebook sharing is as much as with pbook sharing at all.
DRM is NOT a deterrent to sharing. I have friends that share them - especially the ones that are priced above $7-10 dollars --- they find it pretty easy to do. They find the process of getting around this way of locking the ebook to one person and device a fun little activity.
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Originally Posted by plumboz
Hi J,
Well, in any case the only place that the price has changed so far is Smashwords. They act immediately on that sort of thing. As of a few minutes ago Amazon and B&N were still at $0.89. I imagine it could take anywhere from a few more hours to several days before $2.99 takes over everywhere.
I didn't know that non-DRM ebooks could be passed around (do you mean copied?). But that's okay with me. If a reader liked it enough to share that can only be good in the long run.
'scuse me now whilst I break down my current WIP and put it to the Sol Stein scene by scene test. It's work but it's fun work.
Alan
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