I was looking at purchasing a book or two yesterday from Amazon. Now, I haven’t purchased a book in a while for my kindle and was extremely surprised when I found Room: A Novel by Emma Donoghue priced higher for Kindle than it was for the paperback.
I’ve read a lot over the last year about pricing for ebooks and what not, and it seems like the publishing companies are having a really tough time trying to figure this out. I’m no math major, but… I have researched in depth how to publish a book for Kindle and Nook…and its incredibly less expensive than to publish a traditional book.
So, why on earth are publishers pricing a product with very little overhead the same or more as products with higher overhead?
I would want to be the company that didn’t want to jack the consumer and imply they are stupid to the process of book making.
I think companies need to take a look at the self-publishers and realize they don’t need to pay massive salaries to publish books in ebook format. Massive tech salaries is the only possible reason I can think of to make a kindle book more than a paperbook – I don’t want to think the publishing company is taking the consumers for a ride.
Because that would be a crappy thing to do.
I was looking at purchasing a book or two yesterday from Amazon. Now, I haven’t purchased a book in a while for my kindle and was extremely surprised when I found Room: A Novel by Emma Donoghue priced higher for Kindle than it was for the paperback. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316098329/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=nyf-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0316098329
I’ve read a lot over the last year about pricing for ebooks and what not, and it seems like the publishing companies are having a really tough time trying to figure this out. I’m no math major, but… I have researched in depth how to publish a book for Kindle and Nook…and its incredibly less expensive than to publish a traditional book.
So, why on earth are publishers pricing a product with very little overhead the same or more as products with higher overhead?
I would want to be the company that didn’t want to jack the consumer and imply they are stupid to the process of book making.
I think companies need to take a look at the self-publishers and realize they don’t need to pay massive salaries to publish books in ebook format. Massive tech salaries is the only possible reason I can think of to make a kindle book more than a paperbook – I don’t want to think the publishing company is taking the consumers for a ride.
Because that would be a crappy thing to do.
