If indie authors and micropresses will not have access to the iPad publishing platform, then the platform not only loses selection, but also loses those potential purchasers – many indie authors are also consumers, and if they cannot post, they may not purchase.

There are already a few signs of this happening. There’s no way a $14.99 price restriction can last.
Plus you have indie authors and smaller publishers.

It’s too late for publishers to have it the way it was.
They need to accept it , move on, and get more customer friendly or they are going to lose a lot of (Amazon ) customers.

E-readers are here to stay. It’s changed the way people who read view books, newspapers, and magazines, and how we expect to purchase them.

Publishers keep trying, but I don’t think they will win this battle of wills.
The authors will win, because there are more ways for them to get their books published now, and make good money.

The readers will win, because we are able to read more books that might not have been published, because of the big business of books’ antiquated publishing policies.

Publishing was king for a long time, but it has been dethroned by kingdom of dedicated readers.

Readers like me, who read many books a week, aren’t going to pay big bucks for e-books. I used to take books with me everywhere, now it’s my Kindle 1that I take along wherever I go.
When I bought paper books, I bought my share of hardback books, but most times I waited for the book to be released in paperback…even books by my favorite authors, that ended up on my keeper shelf. Hardbacks were bought used.

I can’t buy used e-books. Free books are nice, but modern reading isn’t free, unless an author is offering a first book for free so we can see what their writing style is like. Then, if we like it, we can buy their other books ! I love that !

So, I wait for the price to drop as low as a paperback…that’s just my personal way of keeping my reading-habit spending under control. I buy at the cheapest price I can find or I wait for prices to drop…just like when I bought paper books. I am a very patient person.

I have been reading e-books for as long as there have been e-books published. I started out reading on my computer. (Couldn’t take the e-books with me.)
Now, along with my Knidle 1, I have the Kindle app on my desk computer, my used laptop and on my iPod Touch (Christmas gift from husband.)

I admit, I have the Stanza app and the Barnes and Noble app, also. I wanted to try them out with out purchasing the e-readers.
But, I find myself reading with the Kindle 1 more, simply because I am used to it and the majority of my library is there.
(Note: I love the E-Ink on my Kindle 1. If someone hasn’t tried it by reading for a few hours on it, they don’t understand the difference it makes. )

I do think Amazon needs to address all the concerns we Kindle owners have mentioned over and over, again, and “fix” the Kindles. Upgrade all of them to be more competitive to other e-readers and less awkward to use.
I have great hopes for the apps helping with some of that. (We need folders and better organization !)
Keep the E-Ink in the future generations of Kindles. Love it !

It’s 14-months old and going strong ,but when my Kindle 1 breathes it’s last, I am hoping there would be a more efficient version of the Kindle than what is available to us now, and at an affordable price. I look forward to seeing what improvements are made and will decide from that.

Publishers, whatever happened to the customer is right ?