Ebooks should be priced in line with Used Books - Page 2

pwjone1 · 04-21-2009, 06:01 PM

I think eBooks haven't been around long enough, the market is not well enough defined, the pricing/profit models therefore not figured out just yet.

I think where will all head, eventually, is sort of like the iPOD or DVD model. Initial introduction, same time basically as the print hardback version, at a price a few $s less than the hardback (excepting where Amazon or BnR subsidizes). Price then dropping some when the paperback comes out, probably eventually to a third, still lower price point, a year or two after that. Assuming the movie doesn't come out or something else to disrupt the progression. But I don't imagine the base eBook price will ever fall much below $2-3, as that seems to be the going rate for a usable 2nd. hand store hand-me-down, at least one that's readable.

What would be interesting to me, is if there were an eBook sales/volume listing. Anyone seen that?

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04-21-2009, 06:01 PM	#16
pwjone1 Bookie Posts: 110 Karma: 702568 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Poughkeepsie, NY Device: none	I think eBooks haven't been around long enough, the market is not well enough defined, the pricing/profit models therefore not figured out just yet. I think where will all head, eventually, is sort of like the iPOD or DVD model. Initial introduction, same time basically as the print hardback version, at a price a few $s less than the hardback (excepting where Amazon or BnR subsidizes). Price then dropping some when the paperback comes out, probably eventually to a third, still lower price point, a year or two after that. Assuming the movie doesn't come out or something else to disrupt the progression. But I don't imagine the base eBook price will ever fall much below $2-3, as that seems to be the going rate for a usable 2nd. hand store hand-me-down, at least one that's readable. What would be interesting to me, is if there were an eBook sales/volume listing. Anyone seen that?