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Old 12-16-2007, 05:45 PM   #85
Steven Lyle Jordan
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Originally Posted by mrkai View Post
The idea really should be to nip this in the bud, short-circuiting the "darknet" process. Instead, they seem to believe they will be accelerating it, when the reality of the situation clearly indicates that either way, it exists.

As far as pricing goes, I think the $9.99 price point that amazon has is one that is workable...assuming publishers can add a bit more value for the money.
"Value-added" e-books is a common suggestion... but what brings added value to an e-book? This is something that has been less than clearly laid out in the past. Perhaps some suggestions would be in order here (by anybody).

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If Amazon wants the Kindle to by the "iPod of eBooks" they would be better served by actually following Apple's model instead of the models used by all of the competitors they have laid waste to...
For Amazon to have been able to satisfy these points, they wouldn't have needed the Kindle at all. They could have simply sold the e-books by these guidelines, and let people read them on whatever they had. Considering how forward Amazon has been regarding their selling program, I suspect it was the publishers that pretty much forced them to tack a piece of hardware onto their e-book system, in order to get the publishers' cooperation.

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How to convince publishers?

Well the same thing that is enraging them should be more than enough to convince them: they don't make a dime off eBooks traded on the internet.
Fine, but if they believe the amount they will spend to produce an e-book line will not net them a profit, they won't bother.
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