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Originally Posted by rlauzon
The price of an eBook should cover the costs of creating the work, divided over the number of copies made. That price should be very small.
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What are these costs? What are the costs of creating a book by a bestselling author that makes tons of money vs the costs of creating a book by an obscure author that sells 400 hc's?? Books are not widgets, so there is no such a thing as the cost of creating a book.
The market is determining the price of an e-book and right now the discrepance between the offer and the bid is so huge that the commercial e-book market is just a drop in a bucket. Personally I just do not see the bid (the price people are willing to pay for e-books in general as a mass not few enthusiasts like us here) coming up, and the laughed at NYT futurist that estimated the price of e-books for large scale adoption to be 0$ may be quite right.
Personally I paid up to 15-20$ for select e-books (though only drm-free e-arcs from Baen or convertible lit books) and I wouldn't pay more than 1$ for a non-convertible drm book, but I just do not see large scale adoption of e-books at current prices