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JSWolf · 03-23-2008, 12:41 AM

Do you know the publishers are to blame for a lot of eBook piracy? I bet you didn't know this. But now you do.

Because they don't put out enough eBooks or do it in a haphazard stupid manor (such as book 3 of a series and not books 1 & 2) people turn to the darknet to find the Ebooks the publishes do not release. And if they find whay they are looking for they think "Gee, I didn't have to overpay for this eBook, let me see if I can find other's I want to read." So they do and they find and they keep doing it. Now if the eBook were originally available for sale then they'd have kept on purchasing.

As a really good example of publisher stupidity, I was looking at Fictionwise & BooksOnBoard at eBook from David Edddings. His series The Belgariad is available sort of. It is a 5 book series. I was able to find one eBook that contained 4 & 5 but I was unable to find 1-3 at all. So why would I buy just 4 & 5 when I am unable to get 1-3? Now this is why some people then turn to the darknet to try to find 1-3. But if they find 1-3, chances are they may also find 4 & 5 and thus, sales of 4 & 5 don't happen. So my question is WHY? Why release part of a series instead of the entire series?

Is it because publishers don't understand eBooks or have they fired anyone who does understand them and tries to speak up? It makes no sense to what they do sometimes and why. When a book is released as a hardcover, the eBook also at a really high price. I understand why the hardcover is priced higher... because it costs more to print a hardcover then a paperback. So what that says to the consumer is that the container is more expensive so we have to have a higher price tag. But for an eBook, the container is EXACTLY the same regardless if the pBook is hardcover or not. So why should the eBook be priced so high? It should not because no matter what format the pBook is, the container for the eBook doesn't change. A BBeB (Sony reader), Mobipocket, MS Reader, eReader etc will still be the same even when the pBook container changes. So they basically make up prices as they go along for the eBooks. And how often does the price change when the pBook goes from hardcover to paperback? A lot of times, it takes a while for this to happen. And we have this new format of paperback that is taller and thinner and has larger print and a higher price tag and is really god awful to hold. It's the sort of paperback book that makes hardcovers a joy to hold. Anyway, they base eBook prices based on pBook prices and that's not fair. The container of an eBook is 100% the same and never changes no matter how the pBook is printed.

So, given a lot of this stupid things done by publishers who could care less if eBooks fail or not cause a lot of people to run to the darknet to find the eBooks they want to read and that won't stop until publishes get their heads from out of they asses so they can finally see the light and do something intelligent about eBooks.

03-23-2008, 12:41 AM	#223
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 80,598 Karma: 150249619 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	Do you know the publishers are to blame for a lot of eBook piracy? I bet you didn't know this. But now you do. Because they don't put out enough eBooks or do it in a haphazard stupid manor (such as book 3 of a series and not books 1 & 2) people turn to the darknet to find the Ebooks the publishes do not release. And if they find whay they are looking for they think "Gee, I didn't have to overpay for this eBook, let me see if I can find other's I want to read." So they do and they find and they keep doing it. Now if the eBook were originally available for sale then they'd have kept on purchasing. As a really good example of publisher stupidity, I was looking at Fictionwise & BooksOnBoard at eBook from David Edddings. His series The Belgariad is available sort of. It is a 5 book series. I was able to find one eBook that contained 4 & 5 but I was unable to find 1-3 at all. So why would I buy just 4 & 5 when I am unable to get 1-3? Now this is why some people then turn to the darknet to try to find 1-3. But if they find 1-3, chances are they may also find 4 & 5 and thus, sales of 4 & 5 don't happen. So my question is WHY? Why release part of a series instead of the entire series? Is it because publishers don't understand eBooks or have they fired anyone who does understand them and tries to speak up? It makes no sense to what they do sometimes and why. When a book is released as a hardcover, the eBook also at a really high price. I understand why the hardcover is priced higher... because it costs more to print a hardcover then a paperback. So what that says to the consumer is that the container is more expensive so we have to have a higher price tag. But for an eBook, the container is EXACTLY the same regardless if the pBook is hardcover or not. So why should the eBook be priced so high? It should not because no matter what format the pBook is, the container for the eBook doesn't change. A BBeB (Sony reader), Mobipocket, MS Reader, eReader etc will still be the same even when the pBook container changes. So they basically make up prices as they go along for the eBooks. And how often does the price change when the pBook goes from hardcover to paperback? A lot of times, it takes a while for this to happen. And we have this new format of paperback that is taller and thinner and has larger print and a higher price tag and is really god awful to hold. It's the sort of paperback book that makes hardcovers a joy to hold. Anyway, they base eBook prices based on pBook prices and that's not fair. The container of an eBook is 100% the same and never changes no matter how the pBook is printed. So, given a lot of this stupid things done by publishers who could care less if eBooks fail or not cause a lot of people to run to the darknet to find the eBooks they want to read and that won't stop until publishes get their heads from out of they asses so they can finally see the light and do something intelligent about eBooks.