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Which leads to the following questions: Why do you have to wait for an ebook at all?! I wish I were kidding. Because ebooks for libraries are really, really, really expensive.
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September 16, at pm. September 17, at am. Please share your location to continue. One thing which you would have noticed is that ebooks are cheaper as compared to printed books.
There are a few reasons for the same as well. I will share with you these reasons below. Ebooks do not use resources for every copy. Once the recording is done, unlimited copies can be sold.
Similarly, there is no storage cost for ebooks as well. Also, there are no transit costs as well. The overall costs are much less. It is the reason why ebooks are more affordable. Whenever a consumer or a reader gets a refund on any book, there is no loss to the publisher or the site selling ebooks. It is one of the main reasons why you will not have to worry about spending a lot while opting for an ebook.
Now that you know why books are expensive, it is time to understand how you can buy them cheaper. The number 1 way to save money while buying books is to buy used books. You can get them in excellent condition. You can still read them easily. Since the reading experience is not compromised, used books are the best ways to buy books cheaper. Another option is to go for audiobooks. This is much higher than the average of around 7.
This is a very large factor in why ebooks are so expensive. To them an ebook is no different than a print book. If you sell a digital copy to someone, it means that they will not buy a physical copy. They just care about copies sold and the price that they are sold at. Obviously, these numbers vary from publisher to publisher and from author to author. At only 2. But here's the irony of the agency model: It wasn't about making more money in the short term, even though e-book prices went up.
Publishers raised prices and made less money per e-book copy sold. This wasn't a story of money-grubbing publishers trying to stick it to consumers. They actually left money on the table.
The result: The e-book marketplace competition that publishers wanted began to take place. And if higher prices slowed down consumers' adoption of e-books and kept people attached to print, publishers were OK with that.
Here's why. It's still a print world Not only are publishers' margins better on higher-priced print books, but when bookstores close it has enormous ramifications for the industry.
And even aside from financial considerations, publishers' entire reason for existence is bound up in print. The major publishers are, quite simply, the best companies in the world at getting print books from authors to readers. Most of the tools at their disposal for making a book a hit are tied to a print world, from buying front-of-the-bookstore placement yes, publishers pay for that to book tours.
As the exponential growth of e-books has slowed, some publishers are even whispering their hopes that perhaps the rate of e-book adoption will slow further and print will be viable well into the future.
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