{"id":5471,"date":"2010-04-22T08:55:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T13:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5471"},"modified":"2010-04-22T08:55:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T13:55:48","slug":"book-versus-ebook-pricing-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5471","title":{"rendered":"Book versus eBook Pricing Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to <strong><a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Jorgen<\/a><\/strong> for digging up this contentious and detailed <strong><a title=\"Dodgy math at the New Yorker\" href=\"http:\/\/industry.bnet.com\/technology\/10007228\/the-new-yorkers-ken-auletta-needs-a-calculator-not-an-e-book-reader\/\" target=\"_self\">article<\/a><\/strong> by <strong><em>BNET&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Erik Sherman where he takes <strong><em>The New Yorker&#8217;s<\/em><\/strong> Ken Auletta&#8217;s book-pricing arithmetic to task.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Missing from Sherman&#8217;s piece is any mention of the\u00c2\u00a0publishers&#8217; sometimes dodgy\u00c2\u00a0mathematics and their unwillingness to change their business models to suit the eBook Revolution. All that overhead may be difficult to justify in the\u00c2\u00a0shift to digital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to Jorgen for digging up this contentious and detailed article by BNET&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0Erik Sherman where he takes The New Yorker&#8217;s Ken Auletta&#8217;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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5471\">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":[7,4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471"}],"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=5471"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5479,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions\/5479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}