From Mobipocket.com
A Million Little Pieces $9.95 – Amazon paperback $9.24
The DaVinci code $14.95 – Amazon hardcover $14.50
And Then There Were None $5.99 – Amazon paperback $6.26
The Rule of Four $6.99 – Amazon paperback $7.99
Night Fall $16.95 – Amazon paperback $7.99
These people are out of their freaking minds. No way am I going to pay full paperback prices for an ebook.
I’m certainly not going to pay hardback prices. Does anyone with half a brain?
Why in the world are ebooks being sold for anything close to hardback prices? Production costs are significantly less, storage costs are significantly less, there’s no sales force and the buyer does most of the work in seeking out the books, downloading them and putting them on the reader.
eReader.com has Frank McCourt’s Teacher Man available for $14.99 (you save 42%!) and Amazon sells that same book in paperback for $7.99.
What am I missing here. Or is it them?
Rather than pay those outrageous prices, get your books from Baen Free Library and after they’ve hooked you with the free versions, go out and buy the full versions. I’ll admit, they don’t have a large selection but they’ve got the right idea.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4586800.stmFrom the linked article:"E-books have not made much of an impact as the experience of reading on-screen has failed to live up to expectations. As a result although sales of e-books are growing they s