http://ireaderreview.com/2008/01/24/kindle-financials-economics-does-this-make-sense/ Kindle Review, Kindle Fire Review, New Kindle Review, Kindle 4 Review Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:22:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://ireaderreview.com/2008/01/24/kindle-financials-economics-does-this-make-sense/#comment-17 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:13:20 +0000 http://thekindle.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/kindle-financials-economics-does-this-make-sense/#comment-17 There is nothing called “price difference that ought to be”. At best you can talk of cost difference, which is also misleading because costs are a function of volumes. Price is a function of what market can bear.
In this particular case, I wouldn’t expect e-books to be significantly cheaper. A large part of a books costs would really be author fees and marketing costs. The only way to reduce costs significantly is therefore to sell a lot more of them. I wouldn’t expect Kindle to _drive_ sales for most titles, it would certainly add to them.

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