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Originally Posted by garygibsonsf
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I could just about accept the 2 dollars argument for an older book that's deep into the long tail ... heck, quite a few people have books like that up for free now. But it's a ridiculous notion. I've seen this view promulgated on these boards, and I'm sorry but it annoys the hell out of me. You're effectively saying you want me and other people like me to do the next best thing to giving away our work for free. Sorry, doesn't cut it. You want quality entertainment, pay for a decent price for it.
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Well, my point is that on electronic releases, the profit that goes to (author + publisher) should be higher than in traditional print books because you don’t have to make and print paper, send to store, pay them, take the unsold books back then dispose of them.
So the profit of (author + publisher) is what, 5x higher? Maybe more? it
has to be, we're comparing selling a digital good in a world where bandwidth is (almost) free and carriyng things all over the country in a truck.
So like I’m cheap (and I still have good eyes) I usually buy soft backs (10E average), if I download an eBook for 2E on your publisher website, then you and your publisher are earning the same, maybe more, no ?
Plus the "Google" point of view of that transaction:
you just sold a book to
me.
No middleman, I just came to you. You can contact me (no spam please), you can infer my taste from anything else I did from you or you publisher or platform. That could have a value.
Then, forgetting about all the things that went wrong in everything I stated above, (but I would really love to be corrected, because I tend to think that the dead tree related costs makes for 80% of the cost of an newspaper/book/magazine) if buying a ebook for 2E is a acceptable deal, then it looks your book is way cheaper than a pack of cigarettes, but hopefully everyone (author and publisher) get more.