Thread: Charlie Stross: Publishers "Cutting their own throats"
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Old 11-30-2011, 02:37 PM   #21
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Originally Posted by TechnoCat View Post
DRM isn't the big problem; their pricing is. Take Bunnicula. Right now it's $5.99 with free (Prime) 2nd Day shipping for the paperback. The electronic book, which does not incur printing, shipping to Amazon, shipping to me or unsold stock destruction costs, is also $5.99. That grates on me. If it was $4, I'd buy it. But at the same price? There are other ways and other books.
Problem with this is that, as far as I know, the production cost between an e-book and a dead tree books is pretty similar. That may be because the publishing world isn't optimised for producing e-books, but that's the way things are.

Personally, I don't have a problem with that. What I do have a problem with is when e-books are priced higher than dead trees, or when they are priced at the same price as hardbacks.
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