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Break-down of e-book Prices on Amazon kindle store
The pricing of e-books has recently become an important issue of discussion. Over amazon’s kindle forum, readers are trying to pursue others to ‘boycott anything over $9.99‘. In one of my recent posts I have already discussed on some concerns regarding amazon’s pricing anomaly. What should be the optimal price of a standard e-book? Should it be half of the hardcover, half of the softcover, or even lower than that? I definitely believe that the price of an e-book must be always lower than any other formats; but in reality, that’s not the case. A lot of people discovered that some e-books are priced even higher than the softcover on amazon. If you compare the prices of e-books on mobipocket.com, which is owned by amazon, such anomaly is even severe.
In any way, here is the break-down of percentage of e-books by price brackets available from amazon kindle store as of April 15. The highest percentage of e-books is 16.1% for the price bracket $9 – $9.99. E-book priced $9.99 or below is 69.5%. In other words, almost 30% of the e-books are priced over $9.99. Out of this 69.5%, 10% of the books are priced $0 – $0.99, and most of these books are available in the public domain.
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[...] hope you remember my previous post on Break-down of e-book Prices on Amazon kindle store in May. That post was based on 265,257 books on kindle store on April 14, 2009. Now amazon has [...]
[...] hope you remember my previous post on Break-down of e-book Prices on Amazon kindle store in May. That post was based on 265,257 books on kindle store on April 14, 2009. Now amazon has [...]
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