{"id":2983,"date":"2009-09-01T08:41:05","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T13:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2983"},"modified":"2009-09-01T08:41:05","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T13:41:05","slug":"muscular-debate-over-ebook-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2983","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Muscular Debate&#8221; over eBook Pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Jorgen<\/strong><\/a> for pointing us to this <a title=\"Same unbelievable argument!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/0df31226-958d-11de-90e0-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1\" target=\"_self\"><strong>article<\/strong><\/a> at the<em><strong> Financial Times<\/strong><\/em> about the debate over eBook Pricing. Seems publishers are still blaming the greedy authors.<\/p>\n<p>More hilarious quotes as publishers continue to sell us this theory that they&#8217;ve never really made much money anyway, and this $9.99 per eBook at Amazon\u00c2\u00a0(STILL WAY TOO MUCH to the CONSUMER! ) is just chiseling them into the ground. They always somehow neglect mentioning\u00c2\u00a0the important cost saving aspect of producing\u00c2\u00a0eBooks, as in there is no printing, shipping or storage to cover. Outside of paying the author his\/her royalty (if he\/she&#8217;s lucky, 8-15% of cover price) there is only some minimal cover design and layout cost, some advertising, and well, they&#8217;ve yet to explain where\u00c2\u00a0the rest of the money goes.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is publishers have to evolve to suit the new market. There is still plenty of profit to be made, they just can&#8217;t make the same profit per item. eBooks are just far\u00c2\u00a0cheaper to produce than\u00c2\u00a0hardcover or paperback. <strong>GET IT THROUGH YOUR THICK HEADS!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Jorgen for pointing us to this article at the Financial Times about the debate over eBook Pricing. Seems publishers are still blaming the greedy authors. More hilarious quotes as publishers continue to sell us this theory that they&#8217;ve never really made much money anyway, and this $9.99 per eBook at Amazon\u00c2\u00a0(STILL WAY TOO &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2983\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2983"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2991,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions\/2991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}