tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6261031256338113167.post3726684883645399885..comments2023-10-19T11:47:32.043-04:00Comments on Laurie Here - Contemporary Fiction and MORE - Book Reviews: The New York Times Top 15 Best Sellers for the week ending March 31st, 2013!lauriehere.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09313379396004112698noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6261031256338113167.post-27498959682238497942013-04-02T09:38:17.200-04:002013-04-02T09:38:17.200-04:00Hi Lauren!
I SO agree with you! You are NOT cheap!...Hi Lauren!<br />I SO agree with you! You are NOT cheap!<br />I REFUSE to pay more than $9.99 for an ebook myself! Even $9.99 is HIGH for me! It's a COMPUTER FILE, for heaven's sake! It cost them barely ANYTHING! <br />I HATE to say this, but, the Publishers are pushing upwards of $14.99 PER EBOOK NOW, AS THEIR 'USUAL PRICE'! OUCH!!!!<br />They are shooting themselves in their own FEET if they think we are going to pay that!<br />I feel like I sound like a broken record because each week I complain about the cost of ebooks! This week wasn't so bad, but in the past I have reemed them out!<br />When ebooks hit the price point of $12.99, I had a FIT! Now they are pushing the $14.99! They held off on the $14.99 because they were being taken to court for price fixing issues, and other things, too. The courts ruled in OUR favor! I have received 2 credits back to my Amazon account already! They have been in the teens, too.<br />I don't know if the price of ebooks will EVER come down. I really think they will stay up there and NEVER come down.<br />Publishers think of ebooks as a BAD thing that has happened to them INSTEAD OF A GOOD THING! It's an ADDITIONAL SOURCE OF INCOME FOR THE PUBLISHERS, but they do NOT see it this way. WHY? I can't BEGIN to guess???<br />I mean this is the PERFECT opportunity for people who would NOT get up and GO to the bookstore for the Publishers to sell books, period! Why don't they make it affordable? I do not know????<br />I have to admit 'some' Independent Authors who have self-published have gone OVER the $7 mark, closer to $8 PER BOOK! I don't buy those, either! That's getting TOO HIGH to what I will spend out of MY pocket! These authors who are increasing the prices of their ebooks to this price point are making OTHER INDIE AUTHORS WHO HAVE SELF PUBLISHED THINK 'THEY' CAN INCREASE THEIR PRICES ON THEIR BOOKS! The problem with this - other authors' books flat-out STINK WITH THEIR EDITING, among other things!<br />There SHOULD BE a pricing model publishers/authors use TO PRICE THEIR BOOKS AT!!!<br />WHEN is the INCREASE in ebooks going to stop? When WE QUIT BUYING THEM!<br />Yes, again, this has been a LARGE ISSUE WITH ME every week except for this 'one' week I did NOT get on my Soapbox preaching about the cost of ebooks!<br />Want to hear a good one now? NOW Publishers are trying out a NEW thing! They are having some authors break up ONE BOOK into 6, or however many they want, and sell each book for $6.99! OUTRAGEOUS! I have to do a review on one, cross that out, 6 books that are like this. The books STINK! The are SO elementary because the author has to keep recapping what happened in the previous books so that ONE person who does NOT buy them ALL KNOWS what the heck is going on!<br />I say nuts to that! I don't need those books! They LOST a customer who otherwise WOULD HAVE READ THE BOOK HAD IT BEEN ONE!<br />I SO agree with you!<br />Thanks for commenting!<br />Laurie lauriehere.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09313379396004112698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6261031256338113167.post-84238375124005637602013-03-31T17:08:21.700-04:002013-03-31T17:08:21.700-04:00These publishers are out of their minds if they th...These publishers are out of their minds if they think I'm going to pay that much for an ebook? Call me cheap but $15 for an ebook is outrageous! I would much rather pay a little more for the independent authors books.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08117757088377359818noreply@blogger.com