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Morbius · 10-17-2006, 11:47 AM

Well, this is a whole lot less encouraging than early indications led folks to believe. Seems from the recent threads that items that initially seemed to drop in price, supposedly in response to this thread, went right back up to their previously high prices. Every one of the books I listed still show at their inflated hardback-comparable price.

So perhaps we didn't have the impact on Sony we at first thought we had...which is going to be sad. I'm certainly not going to be spending $20+ dollars for an ebook version of something I could buy in paperback for $9 or less just about anywhere. Unfortunately, this is the exact kind of thing that has kept ebooks and e-readers from taking off. Not nearly enough content available, the company (in this case, Sony) usually claiming that until there's more buyers available, there won't be more content, yet that same company attempts to sell what content they have at such a high price no one is willing to purchase it. Classic Catch-22.

I'm going to try to put together another list of overpriced titles later today, and then perhaps Bob, you should go ahead and give the list of everything that's been added to this thread up to now over to whomever you might know at Sony, to see if they're really interested. I think it's becoming clear now that whatever caused some initial price drops we saw, it wasn't permanent, and may not have been at all related to what was happening on MobileRead. So Sony may not have someone watching these complaints here, and might not know about them after all. Or if they do, they're apparently not as concerned with them as we hoped they would be!

10-17-2006, 11:47 AM	#19
Morbius Member Posts: 10 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2006 Device: Sony Reader PRS-500	Store prices NOT going down Well, this is a whole lot less encouraging than early indications led folks to believe. Seems from the recent threads that items that initially seemed to drop in price, supposedly in response to this thread, went right back up to their previously high prices. Every one of the books I listed still show at their inflated hardback-comparable price. So perhaps we didn't have the impact on Sony we at first thought we had...which is going to be sad. I'm certainly not going to be spending $20+ dollars for an ebook version of something I could buy in paperback for $9 or less just about anywhere. Unfortunately, this is the exact kind of thing that has kept ebooks and e-readers from taking off. Not nearly enough content available, the company (in this case, Sony) usually claiming that until there's more buyers available, there won't be more content, yet that same company attempts to sell what content they have at such a high price no one is willing to purchase it. Classic Catch-22. I'm going to try to put together another list of overpriced titles later today, and then perhaps Bob, you should go ahead and give the list of everything that's been added to this thread up to now over to whomever you might know at Sony, to see if they're really interested. I think it's becoming clear now that whatever caused some initial price drops we saw, it wasn't permanent, and may not have been at all related to what was happening on MobileRead. So Sony may not have someone watching these complaints here, and might not know about them after all. Or if they do, they're apparently not as concerned with them as we hoped they would be!