Even if you just need to recoup the fixed cost, that's likely well over $100K.
There is a recurring cost (publishing), and there are other costs such as distribution and marketing. There is a fixed cost to producing a book - the time to write and edit it. Why don't they just charge 2-5 bucks per book? It's not like there are any manufacturing costs to offset any more.Īpparently there isn't an author trying to pay rent, either. Again, I can only speak for the publishers I work with, but across all styles and and types of books, print sales are growing again, and eBook sales are stable or even shrinking. There's also the curious trend over the last 12-24 months of public preference swinging back toward print books. As well, producing a store-compliant eBook can cost more and takes more time than most people realize due to the number of competing formats and their complexity). It will destroy your overall margins, since most of the price of the book is not manufacturing (printing a book can be expensive, yes, but it's not nearly as expensive as most people assume, especially with the advent of print on demand and other technologies that allow print runs to more closely match sales. "Cut the price! You'll make it up on volume!" rarely actually works in real life.Īdd that very few books are released as eBooks only-as a result, you can't have a paperback version that costs $12.99 and an eBook version of the same book that costs 4.99. Come on, Amazon owns the industry, and Apple is pathetic. This is one area that I miss SJ the most - he seemed better able to squeeze the publishers of whatever content than EC has ever been able to.Īll of which just served to make the result of the iBooks/publishers lawsuit pure satire. Books and Movies are also rans - poor selection and worse pricing. But look at it - Google and Amazon are eating Apple's lunch, even on the hardware, which is pathetic for Apple.
#Why do i have multiple books in ibooks tv
I don't know if Apple TV is his domain, but I imagine the content is. Even now, long after the they bought Beats, they have nothing. Streaming has been taking over for a long time, but he didn't lead Apple in that direction and ultimately they had to buy into it. Everyone at Apple seems to love him, but I don't see it. OT Rant, but I think Eddie Cue is hopeless.
So I shop Amazon, which has everything available. I live overseas, and while I'd love to by iBooks, they have nothing at all except for the usual public domain books.
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