Monday, 22 July 2013

New future ahead for e-book costs


I've often wondered why electronic book prices are so high.

Maybe I'm oversimplifying, but for e-books, you need to pay the author, the publishing house, and the e-book distributor.

I feel like I better understand the cost of printed books. There is a cost to physically printing something – paper costs, bindings, shipping – all these things add up. Plus, there's still the author, the publishing house and the distributor, too. When I factor in all those pieces, $14 for a paperback makes a little more sense.

But $14 for an e-book? I don't understand that at all.

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