Thread: Interesting article on book pricing and why it might rise
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Old 12-06-2010, 09:46 AM   #238
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
And I am sure there are others. And these are from authors who's books sell pretty well... Alexander McCall Smith, Mercedes Lackey, Anne Rice, Charlaine Harris, Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (to name a few)... So really why do it since they are now charging us for the cover they don't include?
I don't know whether they are. Neither do you. If I wasn't applying the print edition cover to the ebook, I wouldn't allocate part of the costs to the ebook. I have no idea what they are doing.

But the cost of the average cover is likely under $1000, and in many cases, well under that, with the current trend towards digital art and Photoshopped images. Just how much do you think not having a cover on an ebook actually saves, and how much lower do you think the price ought to be because of it?
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