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Forum: Flea Market 08-09-2010, 09:56 PM
Replies: 6
Ended Sony PRS-700
Views: 1,240
Posted By dirtylc
thanks for the pics

Thanks, but I will pass on purchasing your item. Hopefully, the photos will aide a future customer.
Forum: Flea Market 08-09-2010, 12:18 AM
Replies: 6
Ended Sony PRS-700
Views: 1,240
Posted By dirtylc
Please post pics

Hello I am definitely interested and can easily do paypal. All that I ask is for you to please post pictures of the unit here. That way I can see exactly what your selling.
Forum: Sony Reader 08-02-2010, 08:40 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 1,284
Posted By dirtylc
Question concerning text optimization and prs 300

I am planning on purchasing a prs 300 on ebay. Being that I have no experience with Sony units, some questions/concerns came to mind:

1.) How do overdrive public library epub works actually render...
Forum: News 06-11-2009, 11:39 AM
Replies: 93
Views: 20,948
Posted By dirtylc
I have said it on multiple occasions. E-books...

I have said it on multiple occasions. E-books will be cheaper unless consumers are naive enough to pay higher prices for content. Publishing is an outdated industry that needs to reinvent itself. I...
Forum: News 04-05-2009, 07:53 PM
Replies: 137
Views: 22,755
Posted By dirtylc
The Walmart approach

Sure bestsellers are loss leaders. But, do any of us know the economics behind the other 249,900 titles? No we don't. I speculate that for every loss Amazon takes on a bestseller they make two back...
Forum: News 04-05-2009, 01:12 AM
Replies: 137
Views: 22,755
Posted By dirtylc
You have got to love mobileread. Really, do any...

You have got to love mobileread. Really, do any mobileread members know anything about this boycott?! I have attempted to relay the information on numerous occasions. Truth be told when the...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 03-30-2009, 06:45 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 4,979
Posted By dirtylc
Question creating a foreign language dictionary

My thoughts are the following. I want to create a spanish dictionary for my Kindle. In doing this I am thinking to go about it the following way:

1.) Downloading a google book PDF (Public...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 02-20-2009, 06:20 PM
Replies: 121
Views: 22,837
Posted By dirtylc
some of the reviews on that book are freakin...

some of the reviews on that book are freakin hilarious.
Forum: Amazon Kindle 02-20-2009, 01:14 AM
Replies: 121
Views: 22,837
Posted By dirtylc
x3

I like the responses that I am getting back finally some of that mobileread passion is back. Desert Gramps from the way your posts read it seems that yoru health has returned to you. I am glad to...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 02-19-2009, 07:50 PM
Replies: 121
Views: 22,837
Posted By dirtylc
x2

S. Rivers states:

I find it odd, that people compare the price to the hardcover all the time. I don't understand why someone who is now buying ebooks, chose hardcovers over paperbacks to begin...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 02-19-2009, 02:45 PM
Replies: 121
Views: 22,837
Posted By dirtylc
I was called a troll by some of the kind folks on...

I was called a troll by some of the kind folks on here and told to go back to the Kindle forum. That being said I thought why not do something a little better and bring the Kindle forum to you, so...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 02-18-2009, 08:04 AM
Replies: 121
Views: 22,837
Posted By dirtylc
Forum: Amazon Kindle 02-17-2009, 04:15 PM
Replies: 121
Views: 22,837
Posted By dirtylc
Mare thanks for weighing in

Capitalism Free market isn't that what got us into the worst recession since the great depression. huh? I did the numbers and if a person were to start an independent company with the same price...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 02-17-2009, 01:19 PM
Replies: 121
Views: 22,837
Posted By dirtylc
If not misguided, what would someone who falls for the official line be called?

$9.99 Kindle Editions - Are Publishers’ Higher Prices Justifiable?
Posted on February 16, 2009 by switch11

After diving into this, I can tell you where I stand on $9.99 Kindle Edition prices -...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 02-17-2009, 08:34 AM
Replies: 121
Views: 22,837
Posted By dirtylc
please stop with the melodrama!!

I am simply telling you that corporations profit from uneducated customers. CARE TO DISAGREE WITH THAT. That being said I understand where you are coming from no one likes to be called misguided but...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 02-16-2009, 09:02 PM
Replies: 121
Views: 22,837
Posted By dirtylc
Not if they don't know any better

People will buy anything if they aren't educated about the actual underlying inequalities. It is simply my mission to let them know so they can avoid subsidizing criminal publishers.:rifle:
Forum: Amazon Kindle 02-16-2009, 05:22 PM
Replies: 121
Views: 22,837
Posted By dirtylc
TROLL!!!

That's funny close to 1,000 people weighed in at the Amazon page and a majority of those posts were against some of the pricing that many people here are gullible enough to accept blindly. I am not...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 02-16-2009, 02:32 PM
Replies: 121
Views: 22,837
Posted By dirtylc
:2thumbsup wario that is all right. There needs...

:2thumbsup wario that is all right. There needs to be some reasonable profit to keep e books:pirateattack: coming. The beef that many of us have is that they are radically overpricing books many...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 02-16-2009, 11:20 AM
Replies: 121
Views: 22,837
Posted By dirtylc
Author Maya Reynolds is the best

Here is her position in her words, absolutely brilliant:

Saturday, February 14, 2009
The (Publishing) House Is Burning, Part II

Yesterday we talked about James Shein's model for the phases of...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 02-16-2009, 10:53 AM
Replies: 121
Views: 22,837
Posted By dirtylc
well oh well

:worried2:Its seems that the digitization process is a whole lot less costly then actually publishing the book,meaning that everyone can win at a lower price point. The customer the publisher, the...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 02-14-2009, 09:06 PM
Replies: 121
Views: 22,837
Posted By dirtylc
good job damaso

That is exactly what I hope we can accomplish as a consumer block. There are a lot of people that believe that e books can't be cheaper I for one am not one of those folks. There is a healthy point...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 02-13-2009, 10:24 AM
Replies: 121
Views: 22,837
Posted By dirtylc
:stop: I think that you have entirely too much...

:stop: I think that you have entirely too much vested in sticking with the current system. You can make money as an author without sticking the consumer. If your work is good then you won't starve no...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 02-12-2009, 08:27 PM
Replies: 121
Views: 22,837
Posted By dirtylc
Eric Flynt is definately sharp. His 1632 and 33...

Eric Flynt is definately sharp. His 1632 and 33 books are awesome. That type of work I got for free and if he were to sell a book or two for 9.99 and under I would not think twice about purchasing...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 02-12-2009, 07:45 AM
Replies: 121
Views: 22,837
Posted By dirtylc
"If I can reasonably expect to sell 5000 copies...

"If I can reasonably expect to sell 5000 copies of a book, and I decide that my work is worth, say, $20,000 to me (hardly a high rate of pay for 6 months work), then I need to make $4 profit per...
Forum: Amazon Kindle 02-10-2009, 11:55 PM
Replies: 121
Views: 22,837
Posted By dirtylc
digital natives vs. digital immigrants

I read that this morning and I believe that the older e book veterans are so excited about just having e books that they will fall for anything. The junior members are expecting and demand lower...
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