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I was checking out some children's books on Amazon for Lauren and the Kindle versions are 91 cents more than the paperbacks.
Okay, that's not much, but...why? No paper, no delivery costs, no ink... The cost of editing is the same for both and can be split, so can the cover art. I guess there could be an additional charge for the formatting but even so.
Weird. I expect the e-books to be cheaper, not more.
And while I'm moaning, why the hell can't Amazon.ca have Kindle books of its own? Or the wide range of goods that Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk has? We're not exactly a tiny country that's hard to get to. And why, when our dollars are pretty much equal, do our books cost so much more than the US ones?
Humph.
My icon's reminded me that Richard Burgi is on Chuck again tonight. I feel more cheery.
Okay, that's not much, but...why? No paper, no delivery costs, no ink... The cost of editing is the same for both and can be split, so can the cover art. I guess there could be an additional charge for the formatting but even so.
Weird. I expect the e-books to be cheaper, not more.
And while I'm moaning, why the hell can't Amazon.ca have Kindle books of its own? Or the wide range of goods that Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk has? We're not exactly a tiny country that's hard to get to. And why, when our dollars are pretty much equal, do our books cost so much more than the US ones?
Humph.
My icon's reminded me that Richard Burgi is on Chuck again tonight. I feel more cheery.