I was hoping to start some serious conversations about eBook pricing, so I began my research digging around a bit over at ebooks.com and focused a search on fantasy and scifi, thinking those readers would be most likely to dig reading eBooks in the first place. You know, the whole future tech, I’m a silicon zombie kind of thing. And that being the case, I thought I’d find the best prices…since they represent a market that is already sold on tech and most likely to buy in…
There was the hint of realistic pricing in the FANTASY section:
Dark Desires After Dusk
By: Cole, Kresley
Published by: Pocket Ebooks Price: $6.99
But it suffered ridiculous mood swings:
From Dead to Worse
By: Harris, Charlaine
Published by: Ace  Price: $24.95
And under the science fiction section I found one price closer to the mark:
Alien Assignation
By: Redmond, Jeffrey – Published by: Double Dragon Publishing  Price: $5.99
Everything was going well until:
Firstborn
By: Clarke, Arthur C.; Baxter, Stephen – Published by: Ballantine Books  Price: $25.95
WOW… Jesus, Arthur C.! Isn’t that a lot of money for an eBook, a digital file, a megabyte of information? When you figure in the cost of the eReader…
