Comments on: eBooks about Everything store opens with 70,000 titles and a reincarnated Art Buchwald http://www.teleread.org/2007/02/12/ebooks-about-everything-store-opens-with-70000-titles-and-a-reincarnated-art-buchwald/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:38:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Cate http://www.teleread.org/2007/02/12/ebooks-about-everything-store-opens-with-70000-titles-and-a-reincarnated-art-buchwald/comment-page-1/#comment-225103 Cate Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:08:03 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=6171#comment-225103 Hi, David-- Thanks for the great post about BooksforaBuck.com. I'm one of Rob's authors--I've two books published with his company, Reverse Angle and Shadowed Memories. It's been a real pleasure to know Rob and work with his e-book venture. As a publisher, he's supportive and he follows through--something I haven't always found to be true in other publishing arenas. I've read a good number of books by authors on his site, and I've found the books takes on are quality work--definitely worth the minimal cost! I'd encourage anyone looking for something different to stop by BooksforaBuck.com and see what's available--then take a chance...spend the $1 or even a little more! Hi, David–
Thanks for the great post about BooksforaBuck.com. I’m one of Rob’s authors–I’ve two books published with his company, Reverse Angle and Shadowed Memories. It’s been a real pleasure to know Rob and work with his e-book venture. As a publisher, he’s supportive and he follows through–something I haven’t always found to be true in other publishing arenas. I’ve read a good number of books by authors on his site, and I’ve found the books takes on are quality work–definitely worth the minimal cost! I’d encourage anyone looking for something different to stop by BooksforaBuck.com and see what’s available–then take a chance…spend the $1 or even a little more!

]]> By: Rob Preece http://www.teleread.org/2007/02/12/ebooks-about-everything-store-opens-with-70000-titles-and-a-reincarnated-art-buchwald/comment-page-1/#comment-224216 Rob Preece Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:57:21 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=6171#comment-224216 Hi David, I really do appreciate the plug. I built the pricing model around what I think is reasonable to pay for eBooks. Although a case can certainly be made that eBooks offer MORE value than paper books, this isn't the way people think. Most consumers seem to think that if the publisher is going to save however much on not buying a bunch of wood-pulp, mashing it with presses, filling warehouses with paper, shipping big pallets of books to other warehouses, paying bookshelves to store the books on their shelves, and waiting for however many months to find out if the books will be bought, then they should be able to get some of these savings in lower prices. I agree. And while some argue that printing pulp books doesn't really cost that much, am I the only one who notices that the paper publishers use increases in paper prices to justify their higher book prices so often? Rob Preece Publisher, www.BooksForABuck.com Hi David,

I really do appreciate the plug. I built the pricing model around what I think is reasonable to pay for eBooks. Although a case can certainly be made that eBooks offer MORE value than paper books, this isn’t the way people think. Most consumers seem to think that if the publisher is going to save however much on not buying a bunch of wood-pulp, mashing it with presses, filling warehouses with paper, shipping big pallets of books to other warehouses, paying bookshelves to store the books on their shelves, and waiting for however many months to find out if the books will be bought, then they should be able to get some of these savings in lower prices.

I agree.

And while some argue that printing pulp books doesn’t really cost that much, am I the only one who notices that the paper publishers use increases in paper prices to justify their higher book prices so often?

Rob Preece
Publisher, http://www.BooksForABuck.com

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