05-31-2011, 03:31 PM | #31 |
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No maybe about it, that's what needs to be done. The potential for infinite access to all texts and its possible effects on the future of the species is too great to lay in the hands of a few individual publishers.
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05-31-2011, 08:50 PM | #32 |
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For me books of all kinds are like any other product I buy. I don't have to buy any product if I judge it the price be higher that I put it's value to me. If beef is too expensive I can buy pork, chicken or fish. The same with books; just because I want it doesn't mean a publishing house or an indie author has to put the price low enough to entice me. If it sells at a price reasonable to others but too high for me that's as it should be. If the books doesn't sell at a higher price it will drop according to supply and demand. The market does and will set the price.
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06-01-2011, 09:28 PM | #33 |
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Oh, that was subtle.
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06-01-2011, 09:38 PM | #34 | |
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06-01-2011, 09:41 PM | #35 |
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For me, the frustration isn't the absolute cost of the books. It's the price fixing that I find objectionable. I get emails almost daily with discounts and coupons and other incentives for printed books. I used to get those same sorts of deals for ebooks. Now the sellers aren't allowed to discount ebooks, but the publishers still apparently have no problem with all sorts of discounts for paper. I truly don't understand why the difference! Had the publishers done something "half way" like not allowing NYT bestsellers to sell for less than $XXX, or not allowing discounts for XX amount of time after an ebook was published, I'd have been OK with that. I've never been one who "had to" have the latest book in any format. But to simply disallow the same sorts of discounts or frequent buyer rewards that are allowed for paper just makes no sense to me.
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06-01-2011, 09:48 PM | #36 | |
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06-02-2011, 11:49 AM | #37 |
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Funny! I am not brave enought to check if "robotlovin" is a real site.
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06-02-2011, 12:09 PM | #38 | |
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06-02-2011, 12:24 PM | #39 |
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If everything is to be free, what incentive would there be to create new works? As things stand, people are able to create and have their work support themselves and their family. If they had no possibility of income, they would not be able to support themselves and would have to find alternative forms of work. Even if they did it for the pure enjoyment of it, they still would not have the means of sharing it with the world at large, since that still costs plus the companies that would ordinarily be there to provide services to share it would no longer be existing since they couldn't generate profit and couldn't afford to keep running while doing that type of work.
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06-02-2011, 12:25 PM | #40 |
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Robotlovin.com doesn't resolve, can't pull up a server.
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THEN larger servers to keep the data THEN the employees to operate said computers and servers. THEN the publishers need to have strong monitored security for said systems and the security technicians wich all cost big bucks. THEN they have to pay for powerfull internet access wich will cost said publisher alot of money per month because they cant get bye on a dsl line. THEN they have to pay for the employees who have to distribute it to various e-retailers. None of these count for electricity employee insurence/retirement or taxes. Im not saying its more expensive but im tired of everyone on the internet thinking everything is just cheap digital content out of thin air with little or no overhead at all and think that its all needs to be free or dirt cheap. Your little digital book took many expensive steps to get to your ereading device |
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06-02-2011, 01:05 PM | #44 |
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