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"Cost " of an ebook?
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<blockquote data-quote="Kash" data-source="post: 990505" data-attributes="member: 23444"><p>I actually looked into this and turns out physical production is a very small part of a book's cost. Most of it goes into paying the author and employees of the publishing company. </p><p></p><p>However, I would still like to see some sort of price difference between a physical book and an e-book. It's insulting when you can buy a paperback for the same price as an e-book. What's the incentive there? How am I supposed to have my e-book reader earn its cost back if I'm not saving any money on the e-books? Even a few dollars here or there would make it worthwhile, like say $6 or $7 instead of $10 for an average novel. </p><p></p><p>I am definitely interested in the iPad, but I really wish publishers would stop charging so much for books, especially texbooks. $500 a semester for books that I'm going to be using just for a few months is painful on a student's budget.</p><p></p><p>fleurya, Apple has adopted the ePub format for the iPad, which is definitely a good thing since it's a fantastic format for both consumers and publishers. Plus, the entire Google Books collection is in ePub format, so you have access to over a million free titles through that. Also, the iPad should support PDF documents, so there's two formats that you can view books in.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kash, post: 990505, member: 23444"] I actually looked into this and turns out physical production is a very small part of a book's cost. Most of it goes into paying the author and employees of the publishing company. However, I would still like to see some sort of price difference between a physical book and an e-book. It's insulting when you can buy a paperback for the same price as an e-book. What's the incentive there? How am I supposed to have my e-book reader earn its cost back if I'm not saving any money on the e-books? Even a few dollars here or there would make it worthwhile, like say $6 or $7 instead of $10 for an average novel. I am definitely interested in the iPad, but I really wish publishers would stop charging so much for books, especially texbooks. $500 a semester for books that I'm going to be using just for a few months is painful on a student's budget. fleurya, Apple has adopted the ePub format for the iPad, which is definitely a good thing since it's a fantastic format for both consumers and publishers. Plus, the entire Google Books collection is in ePub format, so you have access to over a million free titles through that. Also, the iPad should support PDF documents, so there's two formats that you can view books in. [/QUOTE]
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