Hmmm, thoughts, anyone? Kindle ideas.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/forum/kindle/ref=cm_cd_et_md_pl?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx3IRFCNF3E5K2W&cdMsgID=MxMUJFAN5X6YWB&cdMsgNo=3&cdPage=1&cdSort=oldest&cdThread=Tx3R47YXYZO2BVA#MxMUJFAN5X6YWB
Oh Lordy not again! Ok, no, the production of ebooks is not significantly cheaper than paper books. The main cost to most publishing houses remains staff, of which you will have similar amount, for both tree and ebook production you need staff to run both a print run and to maintain servers.
Another major cost in the production of the paper books is the storage of them, shops don't want them cluttering up the shelves or stock rooms if they don't sell and the publisher don't want them using space in their storage. What's the answer? Price the ebook higher on initial release to encourage the shifting of the paper version.
I have never come across a book I wanted where the ebook price didn't rapidly come down within a few weeks of release.
Finally owning a kindle does not make the purchase of paper prohibited, if the ebook is too expensive buy the paper. Personally I think both tree and ebooks in this country are very reasonably priced.
to which I replied
I buy used books rather than new if I can to minimise all of what you've said above coming into play. I have a K Touch for ease of research and cross referencing rather than the K Fire because I'm mostly interested in the text content intended by the author rather than replacing the traditional physical format. Kids' books are better as paper IMHO although there are some better renderings into e-format now. I put a K free-app on my laptop years ago and only transferred to K Touch recently. I think from reading the other subject headers in the forum here that I'm about the only person in Britain not trying to make my books turn into Hollywood by squeezing them down the intertubes... LOL?
and to blog on about it again,
...the author as creator is given less status by this business point of view, the ecology of the entire world IS important to me and I like my tech to do one or two jobs well rather than loads of stuff badly.
*sigh* Just me, then?
Oh Lordy not again! Ok, no, the production of ebooks is not significantly cheaper than paper books. The main cost to most publishing houses remains staff, of which you will have similar amount, for both tree and ebook production you need staff to run both a print run and to maintain servers.
Another major cost in the production of the paper books is the storage of them, shops don't want them cluttering up the shelves or stock rooms if they don't sell and the publisher don't want them using space in their storage. What's the answer? Price the ebook higher on initial release to encourage the shifting of the paper version.
I have never come across a book I wanted where the ebook price didn't rapidly come down within a few weeks of release.
Finally owning a kindle does not make the purchase of paper prohibited, if the ebook is too expensive buy the paper. Personally I think both tree and ebooks in this country are very reasonably priced.
to which I replied
I buy used books rather than new if I can to minimise all of what you've said above coming into play. I have a K Touch for ease of research and cross referencing rather than the K Fire because I'm mostly interested in the text content intended by the author rather than replacing the traditional physical format. Kids' books are better as paper IMHO although there are some better renderings into e-format now. I put a K free-app on my laptop years ago and only transferred to K Touch recently. I think from reading the other subject headers in the forum here that I'm about the only person in Britain not trying to make my books turn into Hollywood by squeezing them down the intertubes... LOL?
and to blog on about it again,
...the author as creator is given less status by this business point of view, the ecology of the entire world IS important to me and I like my tech to do one or two jobs well rather than loads of stuff badly.
*sigh* Just me, then?