Why Do Ebooks Cost So Much?
“People would have heart attacks if they knew all the costs associated with digital publishing,” says Maja Thomas, senior vice president of the Hachette Book Group’s digital division. Tacking an e onto a book requires antipiracy software, digital warehousing, extra legal support, and programmers to adapt each title for Android, iPhone, Kindle, and all the other formats. That’s on top of the regular costs of turning a manuscript into a finished product.
OK. Lets reduce the cost of ebooks by removing the
antipiracy software, digital warehousing, extra legal support, and programmers to adapt each title for Android, iPhone, Kindle, and all the other formats.
Why the expense of storing 1,000,000 ebook copies of "THE LOST SYMBOL" must be staggering.
And just imagine, they need a lot of programmers to adapt
each title of
each ebook to
each format for
each ereader device.
So lets see. 1,000,000 times how many books? Times how many formats? Times how many ereaders? It just boggles my mind!
Now that I know the true facts I want to pay more than $14.99 for each ebook.
And don't forget - after they publish a paper book they have to retype it into each format to produce an ebook.