Re: Re: Ebook Pirate

I wrote:
>
>> Jon Jermey made two very cogent points, although I'm not sure that  
>> his conclusions from them were ones I would draw.
>>
Jon Jermey:
>>> But once the book is in my possession then these are all sunk  
>>> costs. Nobody makes any more money whether I read the copy of The  
>>> Father Brown Stories on my shelf or not. And none of these people  
>>> make any money if I buy a second-hand copy of Cat Among the  
>>> Pigeons from a second-hand
>>> book shop or Amazon.
>>>
>>
>>
I added:
>> Very true. And this has a huge impact upon any reasonable pricing  
>> model for reprints, reissues of public domain works, etc.
>


Sensei J. Richard Kirkham B.Sc wrote:

> Once again only in the static unimaginative format of pdf. An ebook  
> containing live feed can continue producing as a launch for other  
> products

I'm not sure that that would work for more than a couple of years  
(which is considerably smaller than the life of copyright, which has  
framed the thread above).

If the work is non-fiction, and is to sell follow-on products, it  
probably needs updating frequently, which eliminates or reduces most  
of the cost reductions under discussion. If it's fiction, and you're  
selling other works by the same author, then either that author is  
Methuselah, or these other works are also aging and subject to the  
same cost reductions and price ceilings, and there's much less point  
in using a loss leader.

And loss leaders only seem to catch on in industries where the  
following expenditure will either be very high margin (and that's SO  
not us), or where the total will be high, leading to a fair margin in  
aggregate, even if it's low as a percentage of the total. Just to toss  
in a red herring or so.

In any case, it's an interesting thought.
Marion Gropen
Gropen Associates, Inc.
By-The-Question Consulting,  Tools for Publishers, & Classes
www.GropenAssoc.com
Her blog: www.GropenAssoc.com/blog





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