One of the problems is that publishers are giving Amazon and other retailers the same cut for electronic books that they give for paper books.
I would much prefer to see lower RRPs on ebooks, and Amazon taking a much lower cut of the RRP - perhaps 30% would be reasonable. After all, the retailers have much lower overheads on electronic books than on paperbooks - no need for warehousing and handling them.
I dislike being dependant on Amazon's 'generosity' in giving a 40% discount on the RRP of ebooks for ebook prices to be anywhere near reasonable.
(My definition of a reasonable ebook price is $6 or less!)
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Originally Posted by jenieliser
Interesting... nice to see someone acknowledge that ebooks should be cheaper than a hardback.
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