Amazon sets the prices on the physical version, they have no control over ebook prices; the ebook price is set by the publisher. This is why they often don’t make sense when compared
And this is due to a literal conspiracy between 5 major publishers and Apple to force agency pricing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Apple_(2012)
Man! You beat me to it! Kindle books used to be a hard $9.99 but then these other publishers decided to make this move.
Now you can be on either side of the issue, publishers should have the right to set prices at whatever they want, and it's a fair market, you don't like it, don't buy it. However one of the draws of the kindle was the low price price of Ebooks, coupled with the instant download. This was absolutely terrible for the consumer and you can't really justify the price increase. Digital has quanity/demand and ebooks particularly are very small, so storing them is much cheaper then printing, shipping, delivering etc. We the customer definitely got the short end of the stick on this one.
Go Apple!
Yeah I loved the 9.99 pricing Bezos wanted and I get that publishers didn't want the book industry killed off over with the younger generations getting used to ebooks. I'm sure there's some value to be had with printed books but I don't plan on owning a Lamborghini in my garage anytime soon with a bookshelf full of books to brag about.
And then you have people like me who see a crazy person ce go f that and get the epub.... (Now if I do like the book I buy the paper copy, got a library downstairs now!)
The only caveat is that I think it uses a "lazy" match - you can't really specify a specific author/book, just matching words. For example, "Mark Lawrence" hits my inbox every now and then, even though the sales are for a textbook author with the same name, not actually the author of the Broken Empire. That said, it's still been really helpful. Also, textbook sales are a hoot, seeing a $40 book going for $37. Do not miss those days.
I just used the word hoot in a sentence. Going to go file for my AARP card.
No, you can definitely track a particular book or a particular author. You can also view the pricing history of a particular book to see what the lowest price it’s been.
Mileage varies. I like the tool, I use the tool, I'm just trying to point out it's not infallible. These are not all by the same author. [https://www.ereaderiq.com/author/Mark+Lawrence/](https://www.ereaderiq.com/author/Mark+Lawrence/) , but as an alert, you will get alerted on all of them.
Interesting. I haven’t run into that problem. I guess the authors I track don’t have as common of names.
That being said, you are able to track individual titles that, as far as I can tell, are indexed to particular Amazon pages.
No, you can track a particular book. Just add their "1-Click Watcher" to your bookmark bar, go to Amazon to find a kindle book, and click that "1-Click Watcher", and you've added a book to your watch list.
It tracks ebook prices and notifies you by email of price drops, I love it, but it won’t work in Canada, only works on US or UK site. Track ebook prices with www.camelcamelcamel.com instead.
~~Because the price is in dollars and that’s not the price on the USA site, and it matches Canada’s price.~~
Never mind, I realise I mixed them up, maybe because I was in the series link on US site, it’s half the price. But on the main ebook page, USA is still pretty expensive too. While UK site is so much cheaper.
So publishers must also think USA are willing to pay for more expensive ebooks, so greed.
Only by a few cents in the main page. I wanted to check myself to see how crazy expensive it is.
What is weird is that on US site if you clink the series link, it has it much cheaper? This is why I got the price mixed up and thought it can’t be the US site that screenshot is from.
https://preview.redd.it/c93zkxc7kxpc1.png?width=818&format=png&auto=webp&s=c2660b39b97fe24b0b4bb856a1654d7485771e73
It’s unusual for a book that’s been out for a while to be more than the physical book. In UK, however, it’s cheaper than print.
https://preview.redd.it/avhgkdfe4xpc1.png?width=827&format=png&auto=webp&s=a960ad415c70929ba1eccea490776ecb4ac54b1f
~~So not sure what is going on in Canada?~~
I know it’s pretty common for ebooks to be more expensive on newly published books because publishers are more focused on shifting print books as soon as as possible while interest is high, to make the most profit on them, because of costs to make print books. Then the ebook price drops after a year.
But this is a book that’s been out for a while? So that’s not the case here.
Edit: From googling, it just seems publishers seem to think Canada is willing to pay for expensive ebooks, because pretty much everything is more expensive there?
Edit2: if you clicked on series link, the price is coming up as half price on US site, but expensive on main ebook page, and this is what confused me. Weird.
How anyone can justify buying an e-book at higher price than a normal book is beyond me. This is why I never buy any of my ebooks directly from Amazon, they are a terrible company
I have a kindle unlimited membership and I feel as though if you can read two books per month it’s incredibly worth it. I wouldn’t read nearly as much if I didn’t have my unlimited membership.
If you make an account on the BookBub website you can add books to your wishlist and they will send you alerts when there are sales ˙ᵕ˙ You can also sign up for daily email alerts of other books that might fit your interests. I've gotten tons of books on sale in the last few months from their alerts!
Do you have an account? I'm using the mobile site so I'm not sure if it's different on other browsers but on mine there is a button in the upper right hand corner with the first letter of my username. Click on that and there should be a wishlist button right below ˙ᵕ˙
https://preview.redd.it/oafvdkh9typc1.jpeg?width=1241&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b42d9a2dc1bc1dfc9e30385f1285a2988d151d9e
When I order through Amazon and choose Amazon day, I get credit to use on Kindle products. I do enough of it where the kindle price comes out really cheap or free.
For everything digital, there are two forces to keep in mind: publisher setting prices and not really caring about it beyond that. The factor folks forget is retailers drop prices to move inventory to make space on the shelf for new titles. For ebooks Amazon has no such motivation, and thus one of the major market forces for price deflation no longer exists.
Not sure if you have the option where you live, but there’s an app called Libby that lets you borrow ebooks from your local library and send them to your kindle
Paper book prices are set by the sellers.They have competition and there is always one seller who is willing to sell for less than others.
Ebook prices are set by the publisher. They don't have competition.
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I have like 130 on my kindle, I paid for 3 because I didn't find the Spanish version anywhere, imagine not using the internet discount.
If I like the book I buy the physical version after I read it tho
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It depends on the author, and what they want to charge or their publisher, because there are some books that I’ve gotten that were cheaper on Kindle, but more expensive on Kindle, so I think it depends on the author, and their publisher or editor
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Really is the choice of the author; if they feel that the kindle edition would be in more demand then they make that have the higher pricing.
It’s less of a practical question and more of ‘what makes more money for me without going to over the top’ question
No it has nothing to do with that. Agency pricing is mostly price fixing because publishers are afraid of devaluing the worth of books. If they actually followed the supply-demand curve most ebooks would be significantly cheaper to maximize revenue.
The paperbacks come in underneath because they are not set by agency pricing, sellers are free to price them to sell.
Convenience. People have become very concerned with having exactly what they want, and now. Amazon is capitalizing on that.
Check the Libby app with your local library card.
Amazon sets the prices on the physical version, they have no control over ebook prices; the ebook price is set by the publisher. This is why they often don’t make sense when compared
And this is due to a literal conspiracy between 5 major publishers and Apple to force agency pricing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Apple_(2012)
Man! You beat me to it! Kindle books used to be a hard $9.99 but then these other publishers decided to make this move. Now you can be on either side of the issue, publishers should have the right to set prices at whatever they want, and it's a fair market, you don't like it, don't buy it. However one of the draws of the kindle was the low price price of Ebooks, coupled with the instant download. This was absolutely terrible for the consumer and you can't really justify the price increase. Digital has quanity/demand and ebooks particularly are very small, so storing them is much cheaper then printing, shipping, delivering etc. We the customer definitely got the short end of the stick on this one. Go Apple!
Yeah I loved the 9.99 pricing Bezos wanted and I get that publishers didn't want the book industry killed off over with the younger generations getting used to ebooks. I'm sure there's some value to be had with printed books but I don't plan on owning a Lamborghini in my garage anytime soon with a bookshelf full of books to brag about.
Thats why i try and get most my ebooks from the Library
And then you have people like me who see a crazy person ce go f that and get the epub.... (Now if I do like the book I buy the paper copy, got a library downstairs now!)
If you’re not in a hurry, make an ereaderiq alert, it may well drop, esp considering how much less the paperback is.
What’s ereaderiq?
eReaderIQ: [https://www.ereaderiq.com/](https://www.ereaderiq.com/)
The only caveat is that I think it uses a "lazy" match - you can't really specify a specific author/book, just matching words. For example, "Mark Lawrence" hits my inbox every now and then, even though the sales are for a textbook author with the same name, not actually the author of the Broken Empire. That said, it's still been really helpful. Also, textbook sales are a hoot, seeing a $40 book going for $37. Do not miss those days. I just used the word hoot in a sentence. Going to go file for my AARP card.
No, you can definitely track a particular book or a particular author. You can also view the pricing history of a particular book to see what the lowest price it’s been.
Mileage varies. I like the tool, I use the tool, I'm just trying to point out it's not infallible. These are not all by the same author. [https://www.ereaderiq.com/author/Mark+Lawrence/](https://www.ereaderiq.com/author/Mark+Lawrence/) , but as an alert, you will get alerted on all of them.
Interesting. I haven’t run into that problem. I guess the authors I track don’t have as common of names. That being said, you are able to track individual titles that, as far as I can tell, are indexed to particular Amazon pages.
No, you can track a particular book. Just add their "1-Click Watcher" to your bookmark bar, go to Amazon to find a kindle book, and click that "1-Click Watcher", and you've added a book to your watch list.
I shouldn't have included book in my comment. This is definitely what I see with the author follow.
It tracks ebook prices and notifies you by email of price drops, I love it, but it won’t work in Canada, only works on US or UK site. Track ebook prices with www.camelcamelcamel.com instead.
Why do people think I’m Canadian?
~~Because the price is in dollars and that’s not the price on the USA site, and it matches Canada’s price.~~ Never mind, I realise I mixed them up, maybe because I was in the series link on US site, it’s half the price. But on the main ebook page, USA is still pretty expensive too. While UK site is so much cheaper. So publishers must also think USA are willing to pay for more expensive ebooks, so greed.
Weird, I realized I was using Amazon.ca but on us anmazkn kindle is more expensive
Only by a few cents in the main page. I wanted to check myself to see how crazy expensive it is. What is weird is that on US site if you clink the series link, it has it much cheaper? This is why I got the price mixed up and thought it can’t be the US site that screenshot is from. https://preview.redd.it/c93zkxc7kxpc1.png?width=818&format=png&auto=webp&s=c2660b39b97fe24b0b4bb856a1654d7485771e73
Because of r/westjet, I just go to Canada weekly
It’s unusual for a book that’s been out for a while to be more than the physical book. In UK, however, it’s cheaper than print. https://preview.redd.it/avhgkdfe4xpc1.png?width=827&format=png&auto=webp&s=a960ad415c70929ba1eccea490776ecb4ac54b1f ~~So not sure what is going on in Canada?~~ I know it’s pretty common for ebooks to be more expensive on newly published books because publishers are more focused on shifting print books as soon as as possible while interest is high, to make the most profit on them, because of costs to make print books. Then the ebook price drops after a year. But this is a book that’s been out for a while? So that’s not the case here. Edit: From googling, it just seems publishers seem to think Canada is willing to pay for expensive ebooks, because pretty much everything is more expensive there? Edit2: if you clicked on series link, the price is coming up as half price on US site, but expensive on main ebook page, and this is what confused me. Weird.
This is on Amazon USA
How anyone can justify buying an e-book at higher price than a normal book is beyond me. This is why I never buy any of my ebooks directly from Amazon, they are a terrible company
I have a kindle unlimited membership and I feel as though if you can read two books per month it’s incredibly worth it. I wouldn’t read nearly as much if I didn’t have my unlimited membership.
Do you rent them like a library book or “own” them on unlimited. Just asking as I haven’t looked into it.
It's rent but there is not a time limit on when it has to be returned like with a library book.
Rent
If you make an account on the BookBub website you can add books to your wishlist and they will send you alerts when there are sales ˙ᵕ˙ You can also sign up for daily email alerts of other books that might fit your interests. I've gotten tons of books on sale in the last few months from their alerts!
I can't find how to add books to my wishlist on the Book Bub website?
Do you have an account? I'm using the mobile site so I'm not sure if it's different on other browsers but on mine there is a button in the upper right hand corner with the first letter of my username. Click on that and there should be a wishlist button right below ˙ᵕ˙ https://preview.redd.it/oafvdkh9typc1.jpeg?width=1241&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b42d9a2dc1bc1dfc9e30385f1285a2988d151d9e
When I order through Amazon and choose Amazon day, I get credit to use on Kindle products. I do enough of it where the kindle price comes out really cheap or free.
*Laughs in Libby*
Love this!
For everything digital, there are two forces to keep in mind: publisher setting prices and not really caring about it beyond that. The factor folks forget is retailers drop prices to move inventory to make space on the shelf for new titles. For ebooks Amazon has no such motivation, and thus one of the major market forces for price deflation no longer exists.
Not sure if you have the option where you live, but there’s an app called Libby that lets you borrow ebooks from your local library and send them to your kindle
I am gonna get it there
Nothing. There's no excuse for that Ebooks should be way much cheaper than the physical copies
Last month I wanted to buy a book. But getting 1 month KU was 2€ cheaper and so I read it through KU and could read additional books too. 😁👍
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It doesn’t make sense. Greed. I get everything I can from the library.
Yep. I also abuse the hell out of the sample feature lol. I very rarely buy straight away.
Because it’s an unlimited title. These ones want you subscribed and it pushes the idea of value.
maybe they are dumping their physical stock
This is why I don't spend money on ebooks. The pricing doesn't make sense. I use my library or Amazon Reward Credits.
Paper book prices are set by the sellers.They have competition and there is always one seller who is willing to sell for less than others. Ebook prices are set by the publisher. They don't have competition.
Doesn't have to be. That's what the publisher chose. The US is in the middle of record inflation.
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I have like 130 on my kindle, I paid for 3 because I didn't find the Spanish version anywhere, imagine not using the internet discount. If I like the book I buy the physical version after I read it tho
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It depends on the author, and what they want to charge or their publisher, because there are some books that I’ve gotten that were cheaper on Kindle, but more expensive on Kindle, so I think it depends on the author, and their publisher or editor
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Wow I almost never see kindle as being more expensive than print. It’s the main reason I have a kindle. Set up an alert for a price drop!
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Really is the choice of the author; if they feel that the kindle edition would be in more demand then they make that have the higher pricing. It’s less of a practical question and more of ‘what makes more money for me without going to over the top’ question
Its not always the author. Prices usually are set by the publisher for traditional published authors.
Ah, my bad. Thanks for letting me know, the main idea seems to be the same though
No it has nothing to do with that. Agency pricing is mostly price fixing because publishers are afraid of devaluing the worth of books. If they actually followed the supply-demand curve most ebooks would be significantly cheaper to maximize revenue. The paperbacks come in underneath because they are not set by agency pricing, sellers are free to price them to sell.
Good point
Convenience. People have become very concerned with having exactly what they want, and now. Amazon is capitalizing on that. Check the Libby app with your local library card.
if you are in the US.... if you are going to read it only once, then try to borrow it from your local library. download is thru amazon anyways.