Thread: Charlie Stross: Publishers "Cutting their own throats"
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Old 12-07-2011, 11:20 AM   #113
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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.
But ebooks do have storage and delivery costs.

You have to store the files and you have to pay for the bandwidth to deliver. And if you get wrirelessly, someone pays for the wireless time.
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