Would you buy that book if it was only $4.00?

October 8, 2009 | Comments Off

Do we need $4.00 books? Have books become an expensive speciality, like caviar or hybrid cars? Mark Coker of Smashwords thinks so, and he thinks that ebooks are the saving grace economically for publishers and authors…

Why We Need $4.00 Books
by Mark Coker (Huffington Post)

The day has come for publishers to offer a $4.00 book.

Most books are too expensive. Compared to lower cost alternative media sources, books are becoming niche consumables like caviar.

The high cost of books jeopardizes not only the future of books, but the future of the book publishing industry.

Unless authors, publishers and booksellers cooperate to bring down the cost of books, book publishing faces a painful decline, much as we’re now witnessing with newspaper and magazine publishing.

Here in the U.S., most consumers already think twice before shelling out $7.50, $15.00 or $30.00 for a good read. If a book at the current prices represents a big purchase for citizens of the world’s most affluent economy, imagine the cost burden for the vast majority of the world’s literate people…

Click here to read the rest from Huff Post.

(And here is something that costs even less than $4.00 – a slice of delightful, literate, and free brain food from the lovely folks over at NPR: “Burroughs’ ‘Naked Lunch,’ Still Fresh At 50“)

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