12-19-2011, 03:20 AM | #91 | |
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Amazon used to regularly discount e-books, until agency pricing was introduced (at Apple's behest, I believe). There's been a lot of discussion about it in these forums. They still do seem to discount non-agency e-books. |
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12-19-2011, 03:31 AM | #92 | |
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HarryT is quite right in objecting that production is only a small part of the DTBook's price. However, where I don't agree with him is that production is the only economy done on such books. EBooks means also : no returns, no transport, sometimes no distributor, no warehousing... and no staff for all these. Where it hurts Publishers the most is that they NEED to keep these costs since they sell BOTH forms of books : ebooks and DTB. |
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12-19-2011, 10:27 AM | #93 | |
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12-19-2011, 10:37 AM | #94 | |
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12-19-2011, 10:50 AM | #95 | |
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Yes, the kind of marking done by Immateriel (Bragelonne's distributor) states (openly and visibly) at each chapter's start and end, to which customer (by email) it was sold. That marking can be "erased", but nobody does it. I agree that Amazon's inability to provide such markings can be due to technical reasons, but Amazon has time and again shown that it IS master of it's own technlogy. In addition,creating custom books for each buyer is easier than creating custom books for each device of each buyer, as iis done with DRMized ebooks. |
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12-19-2011, 11:52 AM | #96 | |
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I suppose that the marking that show that I have bought the books is encrypted in the books. I have out of curiosity tried to find my credentials in one of the books I bought. To no availl, and that is certainly very fine with me. |
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12-19-2011, 04:21 PM | #97 | |
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Amazon WAS promoting and pushing lower prices for eBooks. Then Apple stepped in... Apple told the publishers that if they wanted to do business with Apple (for the iBooks marketplace) that they would have to terminate Amazon's ability to price things on their own. So that's how the 'Agency Model' was born. Amazon legally CANNOT push down the prices due to the contracts now in place...thanks to Apple. So before you say you have an issue with Amazon on that you really should be looking at Apple and the publishers. Amazon's hands are tied on this matter. |
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12-22-2011, 01:05 PM | #98 | |
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12-23-2011, 12:18 AM | #99 |
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I had a Samsung DVD recorder/player that (as it turned out, months later) wouldn't play some of the very DVDs it had itself recorded.
I thought about selling it in a garage sale but didn't want to inflict it on anyone else. I took a sledgehammer to it. Very satisfying. |
12-23-2011, 04:32 AM | #100 | |
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There is really little reason for a lot ebooks to at least be 50% of the physical copy. Sorry, but much like the music industry, you have to make things more affordable and accessible in the digital age, thats where price and competition play a major role. Things like Drm and regional avaliability sap that progress away. Esp if its by the people who can help sculpt that progress for their loyal customers. Amazon would be helping everyone by trying to change old ways that no longer are relevant in todays economy and digital infrastructure. |
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