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Old 01-13-2010, 03:12 PM   #146
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Originally Posted by kjk View Post
You value one song by an artist as equal to an entire book by a writer, just based on megabytes?

How long do you think an author spends writing an entire novel?

If you think iTunes is "fair", then comparing a novel to a whole CD ($9.99) is more apt.
I am saying 1 eBook which is in paperback already should be sold $2.
They can take years.
Apples seems to think it's fair they're making nice money from it.

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Originally Posted by dsvick View Post
You are absolutely right that the cost of electronically distributing a book is substantially less than the physical distribution, but the point is that there is a sizable amount of time, effort, and money that goes into books well before they get published in any format. And that has to added into the cost of the book regardless if the method of distribution. You also did not include the actual infrastructure (website, ecommerce account, database managment, etc.) to sell and distribute the eBooks, not a huge cost but still a cost.

That's not really a good example at all, selling a single song from an album would be like selling a single chapter of a book. If you wanted to by an entire album's worth of songs it would cost pretty close to what purchasing the CD would cost, more in some cases. You can buy and enjoy a single song, if the same method was applied to books all you'd do is tease yourself with individual chapters
Which is why I mentioned Amazon as they have all of that already in hand. I am not saying go eBook totally, I am saying give the people an eBook option but not at the same price of hardcovers. Take for example of At the Gates of Darkness which is being sold at £9.48 by Amazon, it's RRP is £18.99. Amazon can make their new releases of eBooks at £5 without problem if you factor in they have the website etc.
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