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10 Dollar Ebooks are dead - 3 Major Publishers Dump Amazon
Brandon Davenport
The bigger they are, when you push them over it makes a huge splash, and thats the case with these 3 major publishers and the Ebook giant Amazon. Who will pay in the end? us! Even if we are not using Amazon, we will all end up paying over 13 dollars for Ebooks, and most of them priced at 14 dollars and up. Hachette's the third major publisher to push for the agency model, following MacMillan and HarperCollins: They'll set the Ebook prices (higher, natch) and the bookseller takes a cut.
It looks like the pricing model, first proposed by Apple to publishers, will be from $12.99 to $14.99 as a suggested price for hardcover bestsellers, though the publisher can (and will) set whatever price they want.
It takes no ink, paper, shipping or any other materials to make an Ebook. In fact you (the publisher) can make one copy and then copy that a million times, and it costs you nothing. Instead of the publisher charging less, selling more, and making the same profit as they were selling physical books, these "publishers" are deciding to sell less, charge more, and the sad part is they will make more money.
... Egreed.
