Ebooks negate the most obvious costs of hardcover books : No dead trees , ink , warehouse or shelf repositing , so of grade they ’re cheaper . In fact , is n’t $ 12.99 for an ebook just a little bit pricy ? Wellll , theNYT breaks it down .
Here ’s a chart using the information Motoko Rich has dug up , reflecting the medium price and revenue modeling for a hardcover book and its ebook counterpart .
mighty now , newspaper publisher do make a little bit more on ebooks , but there are a few things to consider before you bring out the pitchfork necessitate $ 5 ebooks : 1 ) Ebooks are currently less than 5 per centum of book sales . 2 ) Paper bookseller ca n’t compete at these prices , especially indie bookseller . 3 ) There is no equivalent softback book marketplace with low-spirited costs to eke out more money later in a ledger ’s life story ( particularly if the hardback flops ) . 4 ) All of the publishers ’ other costs , like column and office space , make out out of that $ 4 or so a book . 5 ) Most books do n’t make that much money .
The bottom line is , do n’t expect publishers to give up ground on pricing or digital right direction — they want to avoid the euphony industry ’s sad fate , since they already skate by on flimsy margins , and the last few days have been chaotic enough already , to say the least . [ NYT ]
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