Ebooks still too expensive

Despite growing online markets for discounted books, the average cost of college textbooks has risen four times faster than the rate of inflation over the past 10 years. However, these ebooks presented in this top are not the average books you read every day. If the paperback and ebook are within a dollar of price, ill usually just buy the paperback. Today, however, while the physical size of a book may still matter in a bookstore, ebooks have no dimensions. A lot of participants pointed out that they see digital books as too expensive for what they deliver, because they dont offer the same richness as a physical book. An investment with too many questions and too few answers.

The idea behind the question, as i understand it, is. As you say, all the major fees will have been taken care of long ago books are just getting way more expensive, and it bums me out. They could be sold for half the price of a paper book, but the author could get four times the royalty and there would still be profit margin left for the retailer. Checkout our vast catalog of romance, selfhelp, educational, and even kids titles.

The professionals who do that work have to make a living, just like you do at your job. Many ebooks cost as much or more than physical books, despite there being no printing or distribution costs. The big publishers can ask a million dollars an ebook, for all i care. The rest of the time, i read kindle unlimited books, and. Why are kindle books more expensive than physical ones.

In fact, free is too expensive, because youd still waste time by reading it. No one except for authors, publishers, and booksellers believes that college textbooks are reasonably priced. While ebooks are helping the publishing industry, they can. And that explains why ebooks sold by the traditional book distribution businesses are so pricy. Different publishers have different strategies, which is why youre seeing variation. Why are so many kindle books now more expensive than the.

For now, ebooks will be more expensive than printed books. Majority of students have skipped buying a college textbook because theyre too expensive by tyler kingkade textbooks sit on shelves at the chegg inc. With a ebook, they can create one digital version and have it on a server that anyone can download i just dont see why this is more expensive than printingshipping a book. That begins to explain why publishers are trying to keep ebook prices high. Oreilly media has stopped retailing books directly on its. If a book is available in paperback, hardcover, and kindle version, some. Its because theres no competition at the wholesale level. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading at even one penny, this book would be overpriced. No commercials and free to you in partnership with your local library.

With ebooks, publishers retain the rights to price the ebooks. In short, these publishers have overpriced ebooks because they want printed books to continue being the norm. Although many people still prefer goodold paperbacks, digital natives and people who travel a lot love their ebooks and ereaders. In this 2009 file photo, the kindle 2 electronic reader is shown at an. Since amazon started pushing kindle hard, we have been on the companys case for selling ebooks for too high of a price. Ebook readers have come quite a long way since amazons first. Oreilly media has stopped retailing books directly on its ecommerce store.

Ebooks dont involve costs like paper, labor, and shipping, so why do they often cost more than their paperback counterparts. Top 5 most expensive ebooks in the kindle store adweek. Like you said, some are good, some are trash if theyre free, i dont feel like ive wasted money if they stink but most are in the middle. I have been involved with a number of projects over the years to reduce the cost of textbooks, most of which focused on open educational resources oer, which may be the topic of a future post. It only takes a quick scan of a handful of ebooks, say in the kindle store, to notice that the number of pages that constitutes an ebook is almost as wide as the pacific.

The 2010s were supposed to bring the ebook revolution. Yes, if you have the money and absolutely need the latest, most featureheavy device, were certainly not going to stop you. A physical book requires printing, constructing, and shipping, whereas an ebook is uploaded to the. You will notice that the ebooks are not for anyone to read. Authors, please keep telling readers how ebooks should be. The most expensive books in the world readers digest. They exclude selfpublished books, a sizable market for ebooks.

There is still the same amount of content and nothing is being lost in the transition from printed book to ebook, regardless of format. I know there is hardware expenses and bandwidth, etc. How can i make my book affordable and still make a profit. Book publishers are being sued by the justice department for allegedly colluding to raise ebook prices. Is there anyway to get the price down so i can make a profit. This is why a new ebook almost costs as much as a hardcover and is normally more expensive than a paperback. As some have already stated, the big five fought amazon for years because the price of ebooks was too low, finally they got to put the prices they wanted, which are the same as the printed version. Rant why are some ebooks books more expensive than paperback. Heres the answer, and why ebook prices may be falling in the future. Kindle edition by kintz, jarod, arod, dora j download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. There are also variations in circumstances which help justify some of the differences.

A majority of students say the textbooks are too damn. And, according to dan franklin, a digital publishing specialist, more than 50% of genre sales are on ebook. The short answer to this question is, if were comparing apples and applesits not expensive. Ultimately, this stock is still not cheap enough, despite the. When the paperback becomes available, the ebook price drops to become a few bucks cheaper. I get notifications on facebook and via email through places like pixel of ink and book bub about free or bargain books. I say lets take a look at the most expensive ebooks ever and find out which one is the most expensive. I get so many comments on how theyre too expensive. They are coveted in their own right, while ebooks, which are not things of beauty, have become more expensive. Hence this resulted in an inconsistency with the pricing of books on 2 different mediums.

No matter what page count your ebook displays, you are still receiving the same amount of words. Whats behind the soaring cost of college textbooks cbs news. We also stopped selling paperbacks, because its very difficult to complete on the shipping costs with the likes of amazon. Sometimes they can be very costly and dear, but other times theyre extremely cheap. Good ereader recently conducted research and polled over 1,200 people on ebook pricing. I love my book on blurb, but it is 44 pages and too expensive for most people to buy a childrens book. This means that, if a publisher increases the price of their book, they are unlikely to increase their share of that fixed amount that is being spent on books.