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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's fair to point out that if you go to a site like Fictionwise, you'll find many, many thousands of books at the US$5.99 price point, which seems enimently fair to me.
The average paperback book cost around £7-8 (say US$15) in the UK, so paying even $10 for an eBook is a considerable saving over paying a paperback here.
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Apples and Oranges, or in that case, different markets and currencies. Last I checked, MMPBs are around USD 6-10, which means an e-book at USD 6 isn't so much a considerable savings as it is simply a fair price at the lower end of the spectrum.
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Originally Posted by pilotbob
I disagree with the above. Publishers could easily sell directly via the web.
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No, they couldn't, at least not
easily, as Mr Stross points out in his analysis. See specifically points 1 through 4.
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Originally Posted by pilotbob
This is in no way true.
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Is too. :-P
Seriously, accusing Mr Stross of being either an idiot or a liar strikes me as... disingenuous. His point, as I understand it, is that the publishing industry is f**ked up. It also has very good historical reasons to be as f**ked up as it is, which means its hard or nearly impossible to un-f**k. A couple thousand e-book fanatics writing enraged campaign letters aren't going to do the trick, I'm afraid. Amazon making serious bling with Kindle e-book sales, or Baen Books raking in enough money to make Croesus green with envy just might, but I don't think we are quite there, yet.