Thread: Steve Jobs on the "iPod of reading"
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Old 01-17-2008, 08:30 AM   #62
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
What I am seeing is that because of a decline in book reading, some publishers feel it is ok to come out with a new format of paper book that shafts the reader into paying more then the book is actually worth. No, it's not a hardcover. It's a taller thinner paperback type book. Where as the retail price should be $7.99 for a regular paperback, these new type of books are a lot more expensive.
Trade paperback. The paper quality in a trade paperback is much better than in a mass market paperback. You are paying for reading the book before the mass market paperback is available.
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