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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Note that just 659 theatrical films (produced in all countries) were released in the United States last year.
This compares to 15,000 plus titles annually released by Penguin Random House alone, and not including the Author Solutions self-publishing subsidiary.
Right now I am reading this Simon & Schuster autobiography of a man who escaped North Korea:
http://books.simonandschuster.com/De.../9781476766577
This kind of book has such a small audience compared to a theatrical film that there would be no hope of recouping costs at the price point you suggest. Having said that, it will indeed be much cheaper than a movie ticket -- in a couple years.
You may say that you read bestsellers. But the great majority of big publisher bestsellers sell far fewer copies than the number of people who watch the average big studio film. Even if the price of the book was 99 cents, more people would watch the film, because most people read few books. Unless you want no non-indie books to exist, the lower sales numbers have to considered in the book price charged during the first year or so after release. |
Several pages back I made a post regarding price. In it, I mentioned that books with lower volume sales have justification for higher prices. I also stated that it was ironic that many of the expensive books are the ones that sell the best. It is the indies and low volume works that tend, as a whole, to cost less.