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Are E-Book Prices FINALLY Coming Down?
By JLP | September 13, 2012
I read that publishers had reached an agreement with retailers and that Amazon is moving quickly to bring down the price of e-books.
FINALLY!
Topics: Books | 5 Comments »
September 13th, 2012 at 12:59 pm
That’s nice, but $9.99 is still pretty expensive for an e-book. I am currently reading Don Quixote on my Kindle and it cost $0.00. Next up is Last of the Mohicans, also priced at $0.00. An added benefit is reading classic literature, rather than ephemeral entertainment that will be forgotten in 10 years.
September 13th, 2012 at 2:01 pm
Darn, just bought the “Well Trained Mind” for $20. I bit my teeth on that one but figured since we would be using it for the next 25 years it would be OK. Should have waited a few days!
I with Sam, I normally don’t buy e-books, I just get the old free ones, or buy a hard copy that I can resell or use the library.
September 13th, 2012 at 2:17 pm
Jon,
Not all prices are coming down, apparently. The Well Trained Mind is still $19.99 for the Kindle edition.
September 13th, 2012 at 2:27 pm
JLP,
That’s nice to know. So I would have had to pay that price anyways.
I can see very niche technical books being expensive. But the more mass media and ones that get a lot of exposure I don’t see why they would cost a ton of money. I’ve bought one expensive programming book and one marketing book for programmers that were both near full price (granted the latter was only in e-book form).
September 18th, 2012 at 2:33 pm
They are not coming down for public libraries: http://www.infodocket.com/2012/09/13/overdrive-to-customers-hachette-is-raising-e-book-prices-an-average-of-220-on-over-3500-titles/#_