Are audio books expensive

Are audio books expensive? Well, it's a difficult question. What kind of audio books - downloaded audio books, audiobooks on CD or books on tape, which titles? And compared to what - the old-fashioned book or other audio titles? Let us look at the prices and then take a look at the factors affecting the price of audiobooks. Then we will try to answer the question again: Are audio books expensive?

Prices of audio books ranging from free to up to $ 100. In most cases, was to compare the same audiobook titles we got the following results: books on tape (or audio books on tape) the most expensive ones, audiobooks on CD had a similar price to the original old-book and MP3 audiobooks or the cheapest.

There are three main factors affecting the prices of audio books:

1. Production - production include labor and materials prices. The labor of audiobooks include registration of the reader's voice to read the book whereas in the old-fashioned books include the printing of the book. The materials used are different - for an audio book on CD a CD is required for a book on a cassette tape required for the old-fashioned book, a paper required, and surprisingly for an MP3 audio book is not necessary materials.

2. Publishing costs - The publication 'costs are the same in all types of audio books - audio book on CD and Books on Tape. They all need to place more or less as the space to store the old-fashioned book. But then again MP3 audio book that needs no room for everyone.

3. Copy Rights - The copy rights, the Commission is the author of each book are available. The amount of money is the same course for all types of books and audiobooks.

To summarize, if you have an MP3 player, and if the book you are looking for can be found on an audio book, we advise you to get the MP3 version. Actually you can get free MP3 players and download free audiobooks.