02-06-2009, 10:55 AM | #16 | |
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We already (and haven't started comercializing yet!) recieved a lot of negative feedback on the price our ebooks have, and they already don't know what price it has! (LOL? WTF?). So, I'm assuming, that we can't have that requisite. Customers will allways feel that the ebooks are too expensive. Problem 2: You all said your point of view on why would you pay instead getting it for free. Let me be simple: this is how people works. Stephen King had an idea some time ago. He offered a Novel by chapters on the net. You could just read the chapter for free or pay for it. Mr King said, if more than 50% of the people pays for a chapter, I'll write the next one. Guess how many chapters he wrote? Yes, you got it! So let's assume and be realistic that most of the people will get things for free if they can. The Potter digital thing, just confirms it. What would a "legal" person do if he can't get a legal electronic copy of the book? I guess the answer isn't geting a pirated ilegal version, isn't it? I'm sorry my point of view differs, but I guess I live from this thing, and I expected to live forever before all this thing of the digital era came threatening my job (and I promise you I'm not "rich", I have bank mortages like all of you, etc). |
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as for what is a reasonable price, i think in general people agree that an ebook should be cheaper than a paperback, and certainly should not be sold for the same price as a hardcover book (a lot of publishers do this). have you visited any of the other ebook publishers i mentioned ? baen books for instance sells their books for i believe 6$, and everyone agrees this is reasonable. in fact we recently had another publisher recently post asking if we thought his prices were fair ; everyone said they did, even a little low. one poster said that at 5$ or lower, he doesn't even think about it, he just buys ; at 10$ or more, he has to think about it a lot first. Quote:
music and film industries have already been down this road, they tried drm, and now they are abandoning it because they have realised it doesn't work and only makes their customers angry (sony root-kit debacle for example). and there was an article in the Wall Street Journal today you might find interesting : Quote:
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I really appreciate your answers and POVs. I'll take them into account.
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1) I do buy from Baen because their prices are reasonable (4-8 dollar range) and I can download the ebooks in whatever format I like and as many times I as I like. This has value to me. 2) I'm a grad student that works full time so my time is actually rather valuable. I'm assuming you've never tried to find a well formatted ebook via IRC? If so you'd know it could take 30 minutes to an hour going through various downloaded copies checking to make sure there are no OCR errors, italics and bolded text are in place, indents...I can't really complain about "free" ebooks but some of them have serious qualilty issues...which is why if the book is from Baen I'll go spend 6 dollars and buy and load onto my reader in less than 10 minutes. For a book that costs over 10 dollars...I figured it's worth the extra 10 or 20 minutes to find a "free copy" because well I don't have that kind of money to buy ebooks that cost more than the paperback copy I can get on Amazon.com for .20 cents used.. 3) I've yet to run across anything that hasn't been "cracked" whether it be music, software, or ebooks. Once the format has been out awhile someone will eventually get fed up and find a work around. The pirates are very determined to use the content they paid for and are incredibly intelligent. I can't help but think DRM is a losing war. no matter what format comes out I do believe in time the format will have a work around. So basically, I think it's really smart for publishers to make buying their ebooks more attractive and convenient than the alternatives, which are FREE and becoming increasingly easy to use as well. Adding DRM makes buying ebooks way too complicated. Last edited by Amalthia; 02-20-2009 at 08:40 PM. |
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02-21-2009, 04:34 PM | #21 |
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i just saw this article about drm and epub and i thought it might interest you :
http://booksquare.com/big-bad-three-...blem-like-drm/ |
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another honest customer having trouble because of drm :
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39961 |
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About the drm (zelda_pinwheel), well. I tried my best to convince partners, but the decision it's not on me. It depends on other people. Thanks for the links I'll look at them when I have a little of time this weekend Thanks everybody. |
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I'll take good note of that thing. Thanks.
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