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Book publishers are stuck in the past decades on pricing. $10 is ridiculous for anything but a non-fiction ebook now.
Think about these younger generations and all their options. How are the publishers ever going to win them back, much less get them to fork over $10 or more for an ebook?
If they are not streaming videos and music illegally:
A month of Crunchyroll $6.99
A month of Netflix $8.99
A month of Pandora $4.99
A month of Hulu+ $7.99
(Note there are free versions of: Hulu, Cruchyroll, Pandora)
Each less than the price some major publishers want for a single fiction ebook. Add in social media on smartphones and free services like Youtube and video games and it is game over for the future of traditional publishers, at least the game as they once knew it.
I have picked up probably around 40 free ebooks in the past few months, and I will likely never read most of them. The ebook market is flooded with fiction. The new price of fiction ebooks = free.
Last edited by conan50; 04-16-2015 at 02:41 PM.
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