Ditto that.. I have several bookshelves full of hardcovers.. but there's no way in hell I'm willing to pay the same price for ebooks.
OK, charge ebooks at a slightly higher price (but still lower than hardcovers since ebooks eliminates all costs associated with physical hardcover books, and keep the bullshit that they're only a small percentage of the total cost to yourself) when they're new.. then lower the price once paperbacks are out.
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Originally Posted by hpjrt
I never minded paying full price for hard cover books that were of great interest to me. I knew the cost of reading something "first" ... and chose those books accordingly. With other offerings, I was willing to wait the 8 months for the mass market version to come out.
Am I willing to pay the same price for a newly released ebook as I might be for a hard cover? Absolutely not. With an ebook, there aren't the costs of producing a hard cover. There's no paper ... no binding costs ... no shipping and no storage costs. In fact, theoretically, once the manuscript is input [and preferably proofread] it's a simple matter of bouncing the input version into various formats ... and you have an ebook.
The costs of producing a hard cover, of shipping a hard cover and of warehousing a hard cover dictate, in part, the cost of that hard cover. Without those costs, the publisher could charge less for the ebook and still make the same margin of profit and pay the author the same royalty. It's really a no-brainer ... and all the condescending diatribes you can muster can't argue with the cost savings of ebook production over physical book production.
Mary
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