BizTechTalk Briefs 12/16/2008

• Calculating a fair price for e-books | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home

  Stumbled onto this post via http://twitter.com/billtrippe - analyst at Gilbane. I'll summarize the post as "E-books $$$? WTF?" "Calculating a fair price for e-books By Ficbot How much should e-books cost if they don’t require facilities like the one in the photo? (see site for warehouse image) An interesting thread over at MobileRead has generated a lot of thoughtful comment from the e-book reading Internet community. People keep saying that e-books, with their lack of physical medium, need for shipping and need for warehouse storage, should be priced appropriately cheaper than their print counterparts. And as well, since they have no second-hand market (and if they did, it could only be enabled to the publisher’s satisfaction using cumbersome DRM!) the price should reflect this loss of privilege."

  tags: teleread, e-books, kindle, pricing

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