Joe Abercrombie on Ebook Pricing

[mklynds]

Best Served Cold for the kindle and a better price to boot:

Following hot on the heels of e-books in the uk, and since a couple of folks were asking about the chances of a Kindle version in response to the other post, it would appear Best Served Cold will be available on Kindle via Orbit in the US at the same time as the US hardcover version (July 29th).

And this one will cost you but 10 bucks, which will almost certainly be cheaper than the hardcover, even heavily discounted. Which seems much more realistic and attractive pricing to me - a lot closer to the business model I'd like to see. I reckon now is the time - while the technology is still in its infancy - to be bringing people into the fold with pricing that seems generous. That way people will buy readers knowing there'll be a decent amount of books available at a decent price (after all, an e-reader's only as good as the books you can get on it), and hopefully get into the habit of buying them legitimately. Rather than encouraging folks to pilfer them off the darknet via prohibitive pricing, and making that a more and more widely used and accepted way of doing things. It seems publishers and booksellers are prone to see this as a threat rather than an opportunity. Clearly books and music aren't quite in the same boat, as a paper book still offers advantages that an e-reader probably won't for some time to come, while a downloaded song and one played from cd are pretty much identical, but it would be a shame if we were to repeat the mistakes of the music industry...

This is from Joe's facebook page.

[jaxx6166]

Just to let yall know, I checked AMZN today and the First Law trilogy is now available on the Kindle. it seems to be K* exclusive right now though if you like proprietary stores.

Prices, for those concerned are set at $8.82 (USD)

There is no cover displayed through their store. They are listed as being digitized by Orion Publishing Group, which is part of Gollancz...

Alternatively, you can go to BOB and get it for $9.80 (USD) in ePub. I think I may do this. Total price for the digital version is less than the TPB price I paid for all 3...figures