{"id":73,"date":"2008-12-28T15:51:48","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T20:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=73"},"modified":"2008-12-28T15:59:23","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T20:59:23","slug":"first-stop-ebookscom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"First Stop: ebooks.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was hoping to start some serious conversations about eBook pricing, so I began my research digging\u00c2\u00a0around a bit over at ebooks.com <\/a>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…<\/p>\n

There was the hint of realistic pricing in the FANTASY section:<\/em><\/p>\n

Dark Desires After Dusk<\/a>
\nBy: Cole, Kresley
\nPublished by: Pocket Ebooks\u00c2\u00a0 Price: $6.99<\/strong><\/p>\n

But it suffered ridiculous mood swings:<\/em><\/p>\n

From Dead to Worse<\/a>
\nBy: Harris, Charlaine
\nPublished by: Ace\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Price: $24.95<\/strong><\/p>\n

And under the science fiction section I found one price closer to the mark:<\/em><\/p>\n

Alien Assignation
\n<\/a>By: Redmond, Jeffrey – Published by: Double Dragon Publishing\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Price: $5.99<\/strong><\/p>\n

Everything was going well until:<\/em><\/p>\n

Firstborn<\/a>
\nBy: Clarke, Arthur C.; Baxter, Stephen – Published by: Ballantine Books \u00c2\u00a0Price: $25.95<\/strong><\/p>\n

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…<\/p>\n