{"id":3011,"date":"2009-09-03T09:10:44","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T14:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3011"},"modified":"2009-09-03T09:10:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T14:10:44","slug":"an-example-of-ridiculous-ebook-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3011","title":{"rendered":"An example of ridiculous eBook pricing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a <a title=\"The Lost Symbol - only $29.95 for a 1MB file...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/95806-page.html\" target=\"_self\">story<\/a> at <strong>Bookseller.com<\/strong> describing how <strong>Transworld,<\/strong> (&#8230;there&#8217;s a warm and cuddly name for you&#8230;) the publisher of <strong>Dan Brown&#8217;s<\/strong> new book <em><strong>The Lost Symbol<\/strong>,\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0will release hardback and eBook editions simultaneously on September 15th both priced at <strong>$29.95<\/strong>. That while Amazon offers a <strong>$9.99<\/strong> Kindle edition.<\/p>\n<p>Come on! <strong>$29.95<\/strong> for an eBook, when most people think <strong>$9.99<\/strong> is too much? On top of that other retailers will be free to discount their copies, which will further muddy the waters.<\/p>\n<p>It would be easy to be snide, but it&#8217;s early in the<strong> eBook Revolution<\/strong>. There are bound to be confusing moments like this that consumer backlash is bound to straighten out. Let&#8217;s hope the high prices do not promote too much\u00c2\u00a0piracy and file sharing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>STOP PROMOTING PIRACY. SELL CONTENT PRICED AS CONTENT!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a story at Bookseller.com describing how Transworld, (&#8230;there&#8217;s a warm and cuddly name for you&#8230;) the publisher of Dan Brown&#8217;s new book The Lost Symbol,\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0will release hardback and eBook editions simultaneously on September 15th both priced at $29.95. That while Amazon offers a $9.99 Kindle edition. Come on! $29.95 for an eBook, when most &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3011\">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":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011"}],"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=3011"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3022,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions\/3022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}