I doubt you're going to find anything cheaper. What eReader do you have, if it isn't a Kindle? There are free Kindle apps for the iPhone/Touch/Pad, and a free Kindle program for your computer. I ask, because the $10 Kindle version is probably the cheapest eReader version of the book you can get.

It does come with a campaign... if you assume the campaign "costs" to make $5 and an ebook "cost" $5 to make (those prices include distribution upkeep, paying people to create the distribution systems themselves initially, and also the content creators: programmers/writers) then $10 would be the "break-even" point.

A 60% markup isn't huge, even if it could be made a little cheaper, say, $14.95. 

Really, as long as it is cheaper (by a few dollars) than an "IRL" book, I don't see what the problem is. 

Course, my phone does suck so if I was going to go that route I'd grab the PC reader.

Still 16USD is a lot for a small page count book. 256 page book in Fantasy is barely a novel.

I do think that it will hurt the sales of it, and then they will say well see the tie is was not worth doing, without ever looking at the real reasons as to why.

Making it a Trade Style Book instead of a true paper back seems just a reason to gouge.

and no an EBOOK has after a print book is made a VERY small cost.

No Shipping, no Inventory Tax, no Shelf space.

Ebooks should be  less to buy, some companies understand this, most do not.

I am not asking for a huge savings, but there should be some.

And putting out the Ebook in a version that works on only one Device, instead of using a format that works with most devices seems short sighted as well.

Lee