E-books: Pricing: General

possible price points: free, $0.99, $2.99, $9.99, ... ?
why are E-books still relatively expensive? publisher overhead (offices, executives, ...)?
monopsony: Amazon discounting
subscription models, e.g., Amazon Prime; serialization
Little Sign of a Predicted E-Book Price War less 'showrooming' due to store closures; compensation for hardware losses?; 12/23/2012
BitTorrent Book Promotion Drives 40% Of Downloaders To Book's Amazon Page 12/3/2012
Amazon's Diminishing Discounts 11/22/2012
ValoBox launches pay-by-the-piece ebooks with O?Reilly and Guardian readers pay for ebooks in chunks (chapters, pages) that they can read on the web; 10/26/2012
Traditional Publisher Ebook Pricing Harming Authors' Careers When we look at the $2.99 price point compared to $9.99, $2.99 earns the author slightly more, yet gains the author about four times as many readers. $2.99 ebooks earned the authors six times as many readers than books priced over $10.; 8/9/2012
Ebook site Unglue.it hits bump after Amazon ends crowdfunding payment support Creative Commons Books; 8/9/2012
Author Using Kickstarter To Offer His Book To The Public Domain, And Help Other Creators To Do The Same 6/6/2012
Nobody Cares About The Fixed Costs Of Your Book, Movie, Whatever 5/4/2012
Paulo Coehlo Convinces His Publisher To Offer (Almost) All Of His Ebooks For $0.99 5/2/2012
Friday Night Lights author caught by Amazon e-book rules Bissinger hurt by Apple, Amazon 'no-lower-price' war; 4/30/2012
If Publishers Can't Cover Their Costs With $10 Ebooks, Then They Deserve To Go Out Of Business 4/17/2012
Amazon?s E-Book Pricing a Constant Thorn for Publishers predatory pricing, esp. for small publishers; 4/15/2012
So how much is a fair price to pay for an e-book? (many believe <$10); 2/24/2012
(Brazilian) Vending Machine Sells (paper) Books For Whatever Price You Want 2/21/2012
Buy a paper book from ChiZine Publications, get a free ebook! 1/11/2012
Ebooks must stay fat with VAT, blame the EU, MPs told 12/13/2011
European E-Book Sales Hampered by Tax Structure (VAT much lower on printed books) 12/2/2011
Ray Bradbury Discovers The Internet Is Real After All; Publishers Force Him To Offer Ridiculously Overpriced Ebooks (Fahrenheit 451 was about importance of physical books); 11/29/2011
Publishing Still Doesn?t Get It (quality; subscriptions); 11/19/2011
The newsonomics of Amazon?s Prime moves (quasi-subscriptions); 11/17/2011
E-Publishing The Chinese Way: Very Fast And Very Cheap (serials); 11/8/2011
What happens to ownership as the world goes digital? 11/4/2011
Amazon Lights the Fire With Free Books (Kindle Lending Library); 11/3/2011
What happens to books when the Kindle is free? 10/5/2011
Are $0.99 Kindle E-books a good idea? 6/23/2011
99 Cent Books (all, in 5 years?) 3/7/2011
A Word Of Caution About Those E-Book Versus Hardback Book Statistics (pricing); 7/20/2010
No Ink, No Paper: What's The Value Of An E-Book? 3/12/2010
Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others (Orwellian: Amazon removing purchased E-books); 7/17/2009
Text to Speech and E-books 2/2009

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