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Originally Posted by Snappy!
hehe ... so are they having a hardcover and paperback price for ebooks?  ... and the hardcover price includes two pieces of cardboard to be shipped to user?  |
This is what I find so strangely humorous about the pricing of eBooks. Publishers still price them as though it costs them money to create them and as though they are scarce (i.e. limited print run) when eBooks are, by definition, neither.
This is why I believe that the publishers are seeking to scuttle eBooks before they can take off and that it will be the authors who don't get published that will create the eBook market.
The "killer book" won't be by any "big name" author alive today. It will either be because of a resurgence in a desire to read the big name authors who are dead (i.e. the ones that are out of copyright) or by contemporary unknown authors who can't get published but write good stuff.