Publishers explain ebook pricing
March 1, 2010 by Paul Mayson · Leave a Comment
The New York Times did a piece on how pricing works on an ebook. The costs, who gets what, and the margins. You can read those details here. Plus they have a handy time-saving graphic:
It’s a good article but it stops before it gets to the good stuff. What they don’t cover is the one start-up or company that’s going to have the guts to say, “we’ll make 30% of what we did last year, and we’re prepared to do that for five years. By then we’ll have destroyed everyone holding on to their old pricing models. We’re going to get to the real customers and we’re going to be bigger than any of today’s publishing companies can imagine.”
There’s a new publishing king. I don’t know its name or where’s it’s located; not sure if it will be one company or a few. But, someone’s going to step up and do something drastic, and it’s going to shake the shit out of the pillars of today’s publishing world.
What do you think?
