Comments on: Things Publishers will do to kill eBooks

By: Jess C Scott

Jess C Scott — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:58:13 +0000

I’m appreciating indie publishing more and more. Very nice post, btw

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Friday Link Love 1/5 | Brad’s Reader — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:30:00 +0000

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By: JmHT

JmHT — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:10:10 +0000

Fun, isn’t it? Reminds me, obliquely, of banks and checks. They spent years hiking prices of digital options citing the “value add” proposition. And then moaned about the costs of check. So here we are resisting ebooks when publishing costs are nil and volumes would be higher (due to the already restricted sharing). Doesn’t make any sense to me, but change does so frighten big business owners.

By: Mike Cottmeyer

Mike Cottmeyer — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:42:33 +0000

I am all for cheap prices, but that is not why I buy eBooks. I buy books on my Kindle because 1) I like reading on the device 2) I can carry something like 1000 books with me all the time 3) I can get any available title instantly.

I would rather have a more expensive book than no book at all on my Kindle.

On a side note… One thing I would really love is to buy a print book that came with a free digital edition for the Kindle. Order the physical book, get it in the mail in two days, but get the digital edition instantly. That might even be worth a little extra as a bundle.

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Les éditeurs ont-ils un plan pour tuer les ebooks ? | L'actu des ebooks — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:02:05 +0000

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By: Xavi

Xavi — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:58:10 +0000

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leonce-gaiter/amazon-to-e-book-publishe_b_446205.html

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:37:08 +0000

WSJ Has interesting article today at: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704022804575041401678273596.html?mod=mostpop entitled Beware of the Barnes & Noble Fairy Tale
Excerpt: “the fundamental threat to B&N of book sales moving to the Web or to e-books isn’t going away. Apple’s decision to launch its own e-book store on the iPad only will intensify digital competition. While sales of e-books may slow if Amazon.com raises bestseller prices above the $9.99 level, that won’t help B&N. Any Kindle owners who decide to stop buying e-books likely either won’t buy a book at all or order a print copy instead on Amazon, whose online-sales model remains tough to beat.”

By: Black Pearl

Black Pearl — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:38:31 +0000

You would think that the book publishers would learn from the mistakes that the music publishers have made.

The world it changing and book publishers, news papers and the recording industry will not stand in it’s way, the will be bulldozed over.

For $9.95 I might buy a book I really want to read for $14.95 I will buy the book and put up a Torrent, if I am going to spend that much I might as well have a little fun.

If they kill the ebook I will go back to reading from the Library and not even buy the $9.99 books any more.

The only way they will get my Kindle is to pry it from my cold dead hands.