01-31-2010, 05:06 PM | #31 |
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I guess the rest of us who own other devices should start out own camp?
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01-31-2010, 06:06 PM | #32 |
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Well, here's an idea, then, and I have actually done this *years ago, with music*. Buy the paperback, used. Or download the book from the darknet. Send a check for the list price directly to the author, with a note explaining that you are bypassing the publisher entirely and giving the author full price. Most authors are a lot more accessible these days than in the past, and once you get a contact email for them, they may think you're crazy, but I haven't run into anyone yet that has turned down my request for an address to send them a check.
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01-31-2010, 06:15 PM | #33 |
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I've done that actually, though usually not the full "list price". It was, however, higher than I'd been led to understand the creator usually received from the publisher.
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02-01-2010, 12:24 PM | #38 | |
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02-01-2010, 01:07 PM | #39 |
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Never in the history of the internet has so much been asked of so few. We are fighting not just for the freedom of our eBooks, not just from tyranny, or oppression, or persecution... but from annihilation. We are fighting for our eBooks to live and be read at a fair price. For their right to exist independently of the publishers greed. Let today be the day we the declare to the enemy in one voice: “You shall not press down upon the brow of readers this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify the eBook upon a cross of gold! We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! We shall rage against the dying of the light!”
Join the eBook Resistance. Boycott all eBooks over $9.99, especially those from the Macmillan Tyranny and its subsidiaries. Know the enemy: Macmillan Publishers (United States) (formerly called Holtzbrinck Publishers) Farrar, Straus and Giroux Faber & Faber Henry Holt and Company Holt Paperbacks Metropolitan Books Times Books Owl Books Palgrave Macmillan Picador Roaring Brook Press First Second Books St. Martin's Press Tom Doherty Associates Tor Books Forge Books Bedford, Freeman and Worth Publishing Group W.H. Freeman Bedford/St. Martin's Worth Publishers Nature Publishing Group Scientific American, Inc. |
02-01-2010, 01:53 PM | #40 |
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The music industry was forced to change the publishing industry will soon follow suit. Now they bitch moan and groan much like the music industry once did. But as they see sales in ebooks go up they will have to take another look. $9.99 is the set price for so many ebooks on Amazon I don't see Macmillan's problem they still sell regular books. God knows that their text books cost an arm and a leg. Also if Apple lets publishers set their own price they may have already dug their own grave. All they'll do is charge full price like so many other e book sites. If that's the case I'll just buy a used book from Amazon or get a Kindle.
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02-01-2010, 03:13 PM | #41 |
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Will you continue to boycott the books once the price drops to $9.99 or below?
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What evidence, other than a single blurb in a Macmillan press release, do you have that the price will drop in a reasonable timeframe (note that I consider 'reasonable timeframe' to mean 'a drop that coincides with, and jibes with, the release of the trade and mass-market paperbacks')? The only evidence I can find for Macmillan's ebook pricing shows that they maintain a list price identical to hardcover price for books that have been in mass-market PB reprints for years. |
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02-01-2010, 03:37 PM | #43 | |
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This new model is not starting until March. I wouldn't get upset about it until it is implemented.
I am hoping for a definitive statement, but I do not think it unreasonable to infer from Sargent's statement that the prices will drop over time. That's pretty much what it says. Quote:
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02-01-2010, 04:07 PM | #44 | |
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It will be starting at the Apple bookstore in March, because that's when it opens. I don't believe we have any firm date on when it will come into effect at Amazon. In the meantime, however, if you go to Fictionwise or Mobipocket, which have been operating on publisher-set prices for quite some time, you can see the model in action. Or the inaction of the model, as the case may be.
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02-01-2010, 04:31 PM | #45 |
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Whilst I won't be buying any Macmillan books in the future if they raise their prices, I'm not going to side with Amazon on this either. Why? Because amazon only sell eBooks to kindle owners. Rather than selling in ePub format for anyone with any device and letting the features of the kindle win over customers on the hardware side.
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