Yes and no. The printing and shipping costs of physical production are no longer in the equation, but that's actually a very small part of the budget for most mainstream published books. The vetting process still involves a lot of people, and the hours laying out a book for digital distribution are the same if not more than in traditional typesetting for a printed book. Not to mention marketing and pr departments still have to hustle for the digital book to get noticed and bought, etc. etc. etc.
Not that I disagree that over $10 seems high from a consumer's point of view for a digital book, just trying for some perspective. Jenn On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Race <[email protected]> wrote: > That bugs the crap out of me too. I understand the whole 'paying for > new content' thing (sort of). But I should not be paying more then, > say, the paperback price. There is book! It's electronic words! > That massive process to create the paper thing is not there. I should > get a break for that. > > On Feb 9, 4:10 pm, Todd Elliott <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.maximumpc.com/article/columns/hard_case_addicted_app_store > > > > The thing that pisses me off most is that books companies want to charge > > more than $10 for a freaking e-book. Are you kidding? There's almost no > > distribution cost. If they sell 1 copy a month, that would almost pay > for > > the hosting. > > > > I know Amazon is subsiding their shitty reader, but that's Amazon, not > the > > publisher. > > > > A lot of people pay more than that for Hardbacks that just come out, etc. > > But they can't expect a digital format to command the same premium as a > > physical format. That's exactly like the music industry and mp3s/cds. > > > > --------------------------------------------- > > Todd Elliott > > [email protected]:// > www.theuniquegeek.com/http://www.google.com/profiles/thelliott > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<theuniquegeek%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
