Perhaps part Two?
ebooks
Competition improves the breed. (Old racing axiom.)
I’d prefer it as “Racing improves the breed,” but whatever.
Take away from the article? What I don’t get, the cost of digital storage, the price of keeping a file on hand for digital delivery approaches zero. Even costing it out, bandwidth and storage is cheap.
What’s entrenched is the old ways of doing business. I own several songs, whole albums in some cases, that I would never own unless it was digitally delivered.
I still prefer a hard copy of the CD, when possible. Certain authors, too, the book is what I prefer. However, more and more, the eReader — especially Amazon’s universal tablet — that does work.
I have an Amazon Kindle emulator on my iPad and iPhone, although the thought of reading a book on the phone is abhorrent.
In literature, I still own several paperbacks, bought them second-hand, with a price of 99 cents on the cover. “Pocket Books,” one name I recall. Although I’ve never seen one in person, I studied the “dime westerns” that gave way to the whole genre of Science Fiction.
Price point. Storage and bandwidth are very inexpensive making the delivery of digital books a profitable enterprise, more so with prices fixed.
I’d rather sell 100 books at 99 cents with a net around 60%, instead of one book at $9.99 with a net closer to 90%.
I know, as a writer, I’m better at managing grammar, but the numbers are kind of obvious.
