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Originally Posted by leebase
Ebooks by and large, are cheaper than hard backs by about the amount that credible sources tell us is the cost savings. But it's not good enough that an $18 hard back is sold for $14.99. Just listen to folks who swear vengeance against publishers if an ebook costs more than $9.99.
Those are the folks who never spent $25 for a hard back, who never supported the art. .
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Guess again, dear.
I take exception to ebook pricing and I have paid/will pay full price for a hard cover. I will, though, always speak up when I feel that I am being ripped off. Buying hard covers does not and should not make me be viewed as a "better" customer.
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The people who pay are the only ones who ever matter. Just like as a photographer it doesn't matter to me if someone thinks $50 is too much for a professional print as such people simply don't value my art enough to pay for it. I spend my time caring about the folks who do care for and are willing to pay for art.
Lee
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I'm sure you ask for the greatest amount you think you can get away with - not the actual amount of money the few seconds of your time it took to snap an image or the value of the paper it's printed on, is worth. Do not disguise trying to make a profit with the cloak of "value of art". The price you set for your work is totally arbitrary.
Nothing wrong with trying to make a profit; it is, after all, the American way.
But just because people might be unwilling to pay the price you are asking doesn't mean that they don't "value" your art. They might enjoy the work but not believe that the price you are asking for it is justified by the effort that went into producing it. The intangible "love it, gotta have it" is trumped by common sense when the object is priced too high.
That is precisely what is happening regarding ebook pricing.
And if you think that the publishing industry cares more about the regular people who buy hardcovers to the exclusion of all others, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you. They care about the sale - not the buyer. A discounted sale is better than no sale at all.
I'm sorry, too, that you only care about "the folks who do care for and are willing to pay for art". That seems to be very short-sighted of you. And I am speaking as a person who has paid more than $50 for a photograph. I was one of those people who used to buy photographs at juried art shows. But for years I was only a person who enjoyed looking at the art. Those photographers who pegged me as a looker and not a buyer, and who couldn't be bothered to pretend to take an interest in me never got my business later on, when I was finally able to buy what I liked.