This won't change anything
This won't change much of anything.
You won't get mass purchases of textbooks for $15.
The average NY Times Bestseller sells less than 30,000 copies.
The average textbook sells less than 1500 copies. This means the average textbook author makes $12,000 on sales. The problem is that to write the textbook, the author needs to work nearly 24-hours a day for at least 5 years. That is very little money for that much work.
The big publishers realize that they will end up cutting their throats if they sell big-time textbooks for $15. They stand to lose a lot of money.
Sure, there will be an initial flurry for the novelty of it all. But after a few weeks, the novelty will wear off. And the reality of it will sink in. And the interest will wane.
Thus, what we will see are cheap, poor quality, crappy textbooks on the iBookstore.
The better ones, which sell for the same price as the hardcopy versions will be on Amazon for the Kindle. Period.
You can make more money from Amazon than Apple. Thus case closed for authors and publishers.
As an author, Apple hasn't shown a compelling reason yet to sell on the iBook store compared to Amazon.
get ready to pay $80-$100 for any book that is really needed
mine are all $130-$150 and the ebooks cost $80-$100
not sure why this will change that
This won't change much of anything.
You won't get mass purchases of textbooks for $15.
The average NY Times Bestseller sells less than 30,000 copies.
The average textbook sells less than 1500 copies. This means the average textbook author makes $12,000 on sales. The problem is that to write the textbook, the author needs to work nearly 24-hours a day for at least 5 years. That is very little money for that much work.
The big publishers realize that they will end up cutting their throats if they sell big-time textbooks for $15. They stand to lose a lot of money.
Sure, there will be an initial flurry for the novelty of it all. But after a few weeks, the novelty will wear off. And the reality of it will sink in. And the interest will wane.
Thus, what we will see are cheap, poor quality, crappy textbooks on the iBookstore.
The better ones, which sell for the same price as the hardcopy versions will be on Amazon for the Kindle. Period.
You can make more money from Amazon than Apple. Thus case closed for authors and publishers.
As an author, Apple hasn't shown a compelling reason yet to sell on the iBook store compared to Amazon.