Excellent point! I tend to forget audio and large print because those are generally lower in sales, barely a blip on the market.
Large print in particular is really a hard sell. Virtually every novel or nonfiction trade book will be made into an e-edition, but only a tiny, tiny fraction of books get made into large print editions. The costs are too high (bigger print = more pages) and the print runs too low.
I think of audio as a different thing. Are audiobooks sold as downloads considerably cheaper than audiobooks sold as CDs? A quick perusal of online vendors seems to suggest they are not.
Does ReadHowYouWant do sublicensing agreements with publishers, or do they aggregate large print books the publishers themselves put out? The note on the left side regarding multiple choices for font seems to imply RHYW does the publishing themselves.
When I worked at a trade house, I handled large print books. We had a standard design for all of them, which conformed to the NAVH guidelines.
audiobook prices
anonymous
February 3 2010, 19:17:06 UTC
I pay $11.50/book (usually) to download my audiobooks from audible.com. For a few rare authors where I want physical media backup, I'll pay $20 or $25 for an mp3 version of the book. In one case, I paid $50 for the audiobook, but I really, really wanted that book, and I listened to it more than once. I doubt I'll ever pay that price again, unless the economy really improves
Re: audiobook pricesbarbarienneFebruary 3 2010, 22:47:53 UTC
Your willingness to pay $50 at least once, because you really, really wanted that book, is exactly the point publishers are making in this kerfuffle. Is that audiobook still selling at $50, or has it been discounted?
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Large print in particular is really a hard sell. Virtually every novel or nonfiction trade book will be made into an e-edition, but only a tiny, tiny fraction of books get made into large print editions. The costs are too high (bigger print = more pages) and the print runs too low.
I think of audio as a different thing. Are audiobooks sold as downloads considerably cheaper than audiobooks sold as CDs? A quick perusal of online vendors seems to suggest they are not.
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