by Chris Walters On Monday I wrote in a post that I think prices for ebooks have gone down since 2004. Over on Teleread, a couple of readers called bullshit on that statement and argued that actually prices have been creeping up thanks to greedy publishers.
Entries Tagged as 'prices'
Borders AU slashes ebook prices to bite Apple on market share
November 5th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
Little more than a day since the launch of paid Aussie titles in Apple’s local iBookstore, Borders has hit back with price cuts across their ebook range. Due to the “old publishing” paradigm of geographical restriction, Borders in Australia can’t formally guarantee to beat Amazon’s price on ebooks, as they do (incl. postage) with paper [...]
Tags:Apple·au·bite·borders·ebook·market·prices·share·slashes
Prices announced for Pocketbook’s new e-readers
October 3rd, 2010 · 5 Comments · hardware news
I was just reading over on lesen.net that Pocketbook have announced the prices for their 4 new e-readers and tablet. Pocketbook 602 - 199 € (6″ screen, Wifi, Bluetooth) Pocketbook 603 – 269 € (6″ screen, Wacom, Wifi, Bluetooth) Pocketbook 902 – 329 € (9.7″ screen, Wifi, Bluetooth) Pocketbook 903 – 399 € (9.7″ screen, [...]
Good News for Readers: Amazon Might be Winning Its Battle with Traditional Publishers Over Prices
September 7th, 2010 · 3 Comments · ebookstore news
by Stephen Windwalker While it has been increasingly clear over the past year that Amazon is dominating the market share and price wars among dedicated ebook reader devices, it is now clear that Amazon is also winning its tug of war with traditional book publishers over ebook pricing.
Tags:Amazon·battle·good·news·prices·publishers·readers·traditional·winning
The Kindle Store still has the best prices in the post agency market
August 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news, surveys & polls
The developer behind Inkmesh apparently had a break in his day job. He just ran another ebook price survey similar to the one he ran back in November 2009. FYI: Inkmesh is an ebook search engine. It’s the best way to find out which ebookstore has a given title, and more importantly which store has [...]
Kindle UK Ebookstore launched, 400k titles, most prices the same
August 5th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
So the UK version of the Kindle Store launched today, right on schedule. It has nearly 400k titles which might make it the largest ebookstore in the UK (Europe, too, for that matter). If you’re wondering why I haven’t covered the UK Kindle Store before, it’s because I don’t like regional restrictions when it comes [...]
When Will eBook Prices Start Going Up?
July 19th, 2010 · 5 Comments · opinion
Amazon did us all a favor. In late 2007, almost 3 years ago, they introduced the Kindle. Although it didn’t immediately make ebooks a mainstream phenomenon, the Kindle was the first major step towards significant momentum. More importantly, Amazon looked to set the ebook pricing standard at $9.99. It’s widely known that Amazon lost money [...]
Sony cut e-reader prices, but did they reduce them enough?
July 1st, 2010 · 2 Comments · hardware news
Never one to give up a battle early, Sony have dropped the retail price of all 3 Sony e-readers. (I could already find them at these prices or cheaper, anyway.) The Pocket Edition is now $149, the Touch Edition $169, and the Daily Edition $299. Unfortunately, Sony didn’t reduce the prices as much as they [...]
Will E-Book Pressures Send Hardcover Prices Soaring?
May 12th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion
That’s the question asked by Jane Levere on DailyFinance.com. She has gotten mixed opinions on the issue, ranging from: Alberto Vitale, former chairman and chief executive of Random House, and an early proponent of digital-books, believes the prices of hardcover books could climb by at least a third in the next five years while the [...]
Amazon Cuts Prices in Tiff With Penguin
April 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
From the Wall Street Journal: In the latest round of the book pricing wars, Amazon.com Inc. has begun selling a number of new hardcover books published this month by Pearson PLC’s Penguin Group (USA) for only $9.99 amid a dispute between the two companies over electronic books. Penguin stopped providing digital editions of new titles [...]
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