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Freevangelism: What Should Content Cost?

— nathanbransford.blogspot.com — Nearly everyone in the media world in some form or another is grappling with one huge, massive,... essential question: what should content cost in the digital era? On one side you have the freevangelists (TRADEMARKED MUST CREIDT NATHAN BRANSFORD OMG) ... (more) Freevangelism: What Should Content Cost?

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Cost of Success May Be Relationship With GOP - Washington Post

— washingtonpost.com — Sky News Cost of Success May Be Relationship With GOP Washington Post - 1 hour ago By Michael... D. Shear and Alec MacGillis CHICAGO, Feb. 13 -- Twenty-four days into his presidency, Barack Obama stood last night at the brink of a ... (more) Cost of Success May Be Relationship With GOP - ...

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Freevangelism: What Should Content Cost?
Nathan Bransford - Literary Agent — ... On the other side you have the publishing establishment, who is looking at their P&Ls and concluding that e-books aren't really that much cheaper to produce than a book when you consider overhead like editing, copyediting, production (cover, typesetting, etc.), marketing, sales, rent, etc. HarperStudio asserts that an e-book is only about $2.00 cheaper to produce than a paper book, and thus, any drastic price cutting for e-books will be eating away at already-slim margins. ...

The Hidden Costs of eBooks
Conversational Reading — ... The Harper Studio Blog makes the case for why ebooks shouldn't be dirt cheap: There seems to be a common refrain in many discussions of e-books, the idea that publishers should charge next to nothing for e-books because it doesn’t cost publishers much to produce them.  This reflects a lack of understanding of a publisher’s costs.  The cost of manufacturing a book is only the final cost in an extensive process.  Whether a book is printed on paper and bound or formatted for download as an e-book, publishers still have all the costs leading up to ...

The costing of ebooks
Futurismic — ... Yeah, another ebooks post, but new material is coming in so thick and fast that every day I seem to find an answer to a question that was raised the day before. Point in case - why aren’t ebooks priced at a tiny percentage of the cost of a hardback? Take it away, HarperCollins: ...

Links for 20th February 2009
Velcro City Tourist Board — ... Asked what dangers were more serious than terrorism, Mr Inkster suggested that British government planners were more concerned regarding the possible results of global pandemics, or perhaps the worst-case outcomes of climate change." Gee, d'ya think? Tagged with: uk • security • intelligence • terrorism • policy • perspective • politics • rhetoric • Why E-Books Cost Money to Publish "We still pay for the author advance, the editing, the ...

Ebook Pricing: Who Chooses?
Booksquare — ... I have been thinking for days, weeks, months, heck, years about ebook pricing and traditional publishers. Just for fun last week, I ran some numbers using the general figures from Bob Miller in the comments on his ebook pricing post*, plus a guesstimate of 12% general overhead (high or low, doesn’t really change the bottom line on a per unit basis), and they’re not pretty if you’re a publisher. After modeling various scenarios, two words come to mind: creek and paddle. ...

Show Us the Numbers
Wet Asphalt — To the public at large, as to me, it seems like a no brainer that ebooks should cost much less than print books. You don't have to pay for printing, after all, nor do you have to pay much for distribution, and you don't have to give the same kind of cut to ebook stores, who, after all, don't have to pay things like rent. And yet, there's been some rumblings from the industry about how lower costs of ebooks will hurt publishing (via @RonHogan), and that ebooks still cost money (via @bookavore); "We still pay for the author advance, the editing, the ...