Avid e-book readers can stray beyond Amazon or Barnes and Noble and read for free. The nonprofit Project Gutenberg offers 60, free downloadable books, most of them classics well beyond their copyright protection expiration dates. Google Books brags that it has more than 10 million books available to download for free, including textbooks and government documents as well as literary classics. You don't have to buy an e-reader to read e-books. You can just use your laptop, an Apple iPad or other tablet device, or even a phone app.
E-books may omit some of the traditional costs of publishing, but it imposes other costs. Added technology costs involve formatting the e-book so that various electronic devices and browsers can properly download and store the book.
Smaller publishers and independent authors have more leeway with pricing, but they still have many of the same costs. They must give a percentage of their e-book sales to the online distributor, and unless they are graphic designers, they must hire an illustrator to create their cover art.
Most independent authors have to hire someone to convert their books into e-book format. Plus, they still have the marketing and promotional costs that are required to get their books noticed. However, e-books are overall lower in cost to produce, and that is typically reflected in their lower price than print editions. Association of American Publishers. David Derrico. Printed Books. School Library Journal. Lifestyle Advice.
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This is the only way to read content on a Kindle, as we cannot purchase content in the proprietary Kindle format.
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