Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel A Roberts
Responding to the OP, I agree. Ebook prices are getting out of hand. Not trying to self promote here, but ALL of my ebooks for sale are fairly priced, per word count for fiction and per subject matter for non-fiction. As of yet, I have to go over the $4.99 mark, with my cheapest being free. Yeah, I got a freebie out there. I don't think another dime should be spent on vampire fiction as it's overdone to death these days, and so it is with my work.
When I see a paperback being sold for less than the ebook version, I consider it total ripoff. If my most favorite loved book ever goes into ebook and they charge more, I'll refuse to buy it. A physically printed book incurs far more costs for production and delivery and should always bear the brunt of that cost to the reader.
And so I think the savings in making an ebook and distributing it in electronic format should pass on the savings equally well.
Just my 2 cents. But since this post is electronic, consider it Just my Freebie.  |
Yes, but Daniel, your costs are not the same as that of a publisher, so it's comparing an apple to an electron. The comparison simply has nothing to do with why a publisher might be charging.
The publishers need to figure out how to come up with a product that the market will buy (either books sooooo good and guaranteed we'll pay 15 dollars or cheaper books we'll actually pay for.)
One of the reasons you're able to do what you do is because the medium for getting books out there is changing. For publishers, they haven't changed yet. They haven't figured out how to get costs down, how to produce that same product for cheaper--or they aren't willing to.