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Thanks for sharing. This is probably one of the better articles on the truth of book pricing there is.
Finally an admission that publishers are trying to stifle eBook growth by keeping prices of eBook over inflated.
An excellent point that was made was how ebooks are also charged with the overhead of paper books. Though this should not be the case it is a practice placed by The publisher. I don't think it is fair to load the cost to eBooks. Again this shows how publishers are resisting ebooks instead of innovating.
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Not sure if I agree with all that. Now e-books make up such a small fraction of sales of books published in paper form by major publishers that one can arguably get away with not including the costs in going from the ideas in an authors head to a ready to publish and print work when doing the calculation of cost to produce the e-book. Many of these costs being fixed and not depending on total sales and will have to be accounted for whatever the output format. But there is no real justification for not spreading these costs among all formats as all formats need and benefit from it.
I definitely agree that the free market logic for e-book pricing is not yet there and will not be until e-books start to become a significant part of total sales.
Oh, I never cared for Ann Rice's work. Nice quote from her at the end though. The publishers will not be able to build a big and strong enough dam.