tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5395785056326320389.post2034122585940662776..comments2024-03-28T09:54:45.128-05:00Comments on Living in the library world: Why books cost what they doRachhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15818681260759619548noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5395785056326320389.post-53960714092131949692020-09-27T19:15:49.410-05:002020-09-27T19:15:49.410-05:00I remember books being relatively cheap in the 70s...I remember books being relatively cheap in the 70s and 80s but something happened in either the late 80s or 90s that more than doubled the price of books where i lived anyway. It was about the time where i could start to afford to buy my own books and suddenly they were again out if my price range ☹️.<br />Books that were sold for less than $5 were selling for $16 and the books i wanted were around $50 today they are near $100. I don’t know what it was, i remember my father reading something in the paper, some sort of government announcement and within a few weeks bam all the books were hugely expensive.<br /><br />Anyway what i really wanted to ask it why eBooks are so expensive? <br />I get that publishing is a hit and miss thing you print 10,000 books and and only sell 1000 your stuffed. But eBooks have a one time cost, somebody gets paid to type it all up, but wait, the authors use computers to write the books so they’ve already done the hard work. So you take the file, format it, then sent copies to anyone who gives you money. <br />Why then are they still charging the same price as a hard copy version? There are two hardback books i want i went to the website and they were advertised for $160 then i saw the fine print which informed me that these are the Ebooks!! A 160 bucks for two small computer files? Isn’t that a little ridiculous? Considering eBooks are a pain in the bum compared to real books.Karlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00994241792777771925noreply@blogger.com