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I keep on changing countries and shifting and I always used to pay the most of the overweight in air travel for the books. That has changed a lot now and airlines don't earn from me as they used to So, for me, long-term, even more expensive ebook is saving of money and space. Plus I get to carry as many books for my holidays and choose then and there |
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04-30-2013, 12:18 PM | #62 | |
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I agree totally. I no longer by a physical book only ebooks. I have also bought many authors I would not have tried when their books are cheap. I will pay according to how badly I want to read the book right away. For example 12 of Never by James Patterson is 14.99 right now. If I want to read it right away I will pay that or I will wait for it to come out in pbook and go down in price if I am not in a hurry to read it. |
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I would not buy an ebook at the same pricing as printed book.
It doesn't make sense why an ebook cost as much as a printed book. With a printed book, there are costs to print and assemble the book together. An ebook have none of these costs involved. |
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Amazon must be smoking something...I mean MORE than usual!
I was just looking up a book and the ebook price was $11...but it has a new HARDCOVER for $7 (fulfilled by amazon) I might be willing to pay $7 for a book...maybe...but it is not one of those collectable author's/series that is worth my valuable wall space. I am certainly not going to pay $11 for it....so....another lost sale. Sucks for the author because I usually enjoy her books. |
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The ebook price was for the kindle version, I assume that was amazon price. The hardcover was fulfilled by amazon, I assumed that is also amazon's price. I didn't see anything stating that the price had been set by the publisher, only that it was being sold WITHOUT DRM at the request of the publisher. |
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04-30-2013, 03:45 PM | #67 | |
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I often wait for prices to come down, I have a huge wishlist on ereaderiq for that very reason. I buy a couple of ebooks every week based on emails from ereaderiq that the price has dropped into my purchase range. |
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If someone can offer the same, or similar, item for less then obviously I'll go for the cheaper option - all other things being equal. That's where costs come in to it. But unless I am going into business myself they are only indirectly of interest to me. |
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Was it the price for a new hardcover? What title was it? |
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Of course there are both free ebooks and free readers (in the form of reading apps). So there are a range of ways the cost of reader+ebook could play out. But I don't think that's really relevant to my argument because in the end it comes down to a choice: Do I want to buy a) this ebook or b) this paper book? Assuming it's the same book (which is reasonable) and assuming I've got some kind of reader (or I wouldn't be considering the ebook as an option) then the ebook offers me certain features for this particular text by virtue of being an ebook. So again, whether I choose to pay the asking price comes down to whether I think those features have enough value to justify it. |
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I don't particularly care about DRM as long as I can read a book on all of my devices, what I care about is content! Secondarily to that I care about having that content available wherever I am, and the ability to store it without filling my house with bookcases.
As such, I don't buy pbooks unless that content is not available in any other form, and then only after much thought about need (desire) for the content as opposed to the bulk of paper and inconvenience inherent in that bulk. So it is really immaterial to me what a hard cover or paperback costs, only what the value of the content is. |
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I would think that Amazon, or any retailer, would have a policy that an ebook would never be priced more than the paper version. They should also have the computer algorithm to prevent it from happening. It seems an ebook would never cost more to produce than a pbook, so the cost of the actual printing/distribution should be removed from the cost of the pbook to determine ebook pricing. Quote:
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It also means that the hardcover mentioned could be new/remaindered/secondhand - that's why Amazon have things like "New," "Used - Good" etc listed for books. Last edited by elcreative; 04-30-2013 at 07:15 PM. |
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