Many thanks to Jorgen for digging up this contentious and detailed article by BNET’s Erik Sherman where he takes The New Yorker’s Ken Auletta’s book-pricing arithmetic to task.
I found it an interesting investigation of the number crunching, though it hardly settles the debate regarding the public perception that low-maintenance eBooks should be low-priced.
Missing from Sherman’s piece is any mention of the publishers’ sometimes dodgy mathematics and their unwillingness to change their business models to suit the eBook Revolution. All that overhead may be difficult to justify in the shift to digital.
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