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Oh yeah, I just realized that I left out an important part of my point above when writing about "ebooks at less-than-paperback prices." I meant to say that the economics seen by Baen and Webscriptions suggest that we won't see eBooks at drastically lower prices unless and until unit sales increase very dramatically. In order to cut prices much below the $6.00 (q. 1) or $3.40 (net of bundles) they'd have to be selling enough copies to make the very low marginal cost of bits kick in big-time. That'd probably require a 10x increase in eBook sales (this is my rough guesstimate, no insider knowledge involved).
Even with such a large increase in sales, I sincerely doubt that there's room to drop prices as much as another factor-of-two. The main expense remaining to be squeezed out is the fixed costs for the publisher. "Squeezed out" here really means "made insignificant by increasing sales volume." And those fixed costs don't represent anything near 1/2 of the total cost. So earlier posters who suggested prices like $1.99 per book and $0.99 per book are likely to be disappointed.
Xenophon
Xenophon
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