Cost Of Ebooks Vs Textbooks
Ebooks can be helpful to educators on several levels.
Cost of ebooks vs textbooks. For example little fires everywhere cost 13 99 as an e book and 7 96 new with free shipping as a print book from book depository. In fact most e books cost between 10 and 12. The actual price of an e textbook may be lower.
For college students deciding on what textbooks to buy can be a tough decision. E books can be cheaper. Retail anywhere from 0 99 to 14 99 but most new releases from large publishers are 12 99.
These books retail for around 25 yet cost about 1 10th that amount about 2 50 to print. 9 99 is still too much for an ebook in my opinion but it s better than 14 99. The emergence of e textbooks has only made that decision more.
Some e readers can cost anywhere from 100 to over 200 or more each. Cheaper than ebook reader. That john grisham book costs 16 at amazon and the kindle version costs 10.
Impact on planning and instruction. Although readers save on the cost of e books versus print books a reader wouldn t break even until approximately 20 books at. A printed book is much cheaper than the ebook reader.
If you don t read much a print book will be more economical. And the difference in costs fluctuated by as much 5 in some cases. Retail about 8 cost about 0 75.