Queen 'concerned' about e-books

Originally Posted by Maggy J

Well I'm only passing on what I was told about the costs by one Jeffery Carver author of Neptune's Crossing who does his own coding rather than pay someone else.

And I'm passing on industry information of my own. Being an author doesn't necessarily make you au fait with the costs of producing physical books. It really doesn't matter how many digital editions you have to typeset for, all you end up with is one typesetting charge per edition, exactly the same as you have a typesetting cost for a printed book. And, when print, Kindle, Nook, ePub and everything else are all typeset, you *still* have to print the print edition. eBooks are substantially cheaper to produce because you *don't* have to print them.

Originally Posted by Chris

And I'm passing on industry information of my own. Being an author doesn't necessarily make you au fait with the costs of producing physical books. It really doesn't matter how many digital editions you have to typeset for, all you end up with is one typesetting charge per edition, exactly the same as you have a typesetting cost for a printed book. And, when print, Kindle, Nook, ePub and everything else are all typeset, you *still* have to print the print edition. eBooks are substantially cheaper to produce because you *don't* have to print them.

Of course it SHOULD be cheaper but there are times when I have to pay more for a digital than a hard copy..I merely gave you one of the replies I received to my inquiry about WHY I was asked to pay more.I'm not trying to argue black is white here.

[Hom3r]

IMHO I would only use a e-book if I travelled a lot and read a lot of books.

I would rather a printed book, I spend to much of my day looking a screen.

[multiskilled]

EMP whose that by, is it a post apocalyptic storyline.
Can't seem to find the first one on Google books.

What coding needs to be done for an e-book? My understanding was that it was just a formatted file which the reader would handle..

Originally Posted by Damien

What coding needs to be done for an e-book? My understanding was that it was just a formatted file which the reader would handle..

Ask Amazon?Plus don't forget VAT is charged ONLY on digital format books.

Originally Posted by Damien

What coding needs to be done for an e-book? My understanding was that it was just a formatted file which the reader would handle..

The reader formats are proprietary and differ one from another. If you have written a manuscript in MS Word or even just in rich text, you need to convert from your manuscript to the relevant ebook format and then you need to proof read the thing to ensure it has dealt with all your document formatting correctly.

[Mr_love_monkey]

Originally Posted by Maggy J

...Plus don't forget VAT is charged ONLY on digital format books.

Never understood that one....

[Doug P]

I have a Kobo but having read about the Queen's concerns in the paper I think she has a point....