E-Book Prices

E-Book Prices Marked Up Too High, Libraries Protest (+Video)

With markups of up to 8 times retail price, libraries say they can't afford a good range of content

Emily Chung | June 22, 2015

Why aren't there more e-books on your library's virtual shelves? Libraries say it's because publishers are sometimes charging them more than $100 per copy — and they can't afford it.
The Kindle edition of Lena Dunham's bestselling memoir Not that Kind of Girl retails for $14.99 at Amazon.ca. But the book's publisher, Random House, charges Canadian libraries $85 per copy of the e-book — five times more, according to the Canadian Library Association. 

<more at http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/e-book-prices-marked-up-too-high-libraries-protest-1.3123465>