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bob_ninja · 01-22-2007, 11:02 AM

I bought 4 pBooks at a local store yesterday. All paperback of course. I already have a card that gives me 10% discount. I also had a $5 coupon. The total was about $42 before taxes and I paid $35 with taxes. I wonder if I already get all these discounts and paperback is a small light format already, then the pBook deal is at least as good as eBook deal and Reader advantages kind of melt away.

3 of the books I picked without prior info, by browsing shelves. Of course I like browsing shelves in a store. I don't think it would be as much fun to browse on-line. I wish I had Internet access to check ratings on books, but that is minor.

I guess the Reader/Connect store combo just isn't very compeling. I will certainly buy it after they fix the initial problems, but probably not for literature which is generally cheap in pBook format.

We will simply have to wait for publishers to clue in how much money they are wasting on pBook production as opposed to eBooks. Looks like they'll need a lot of time to create a proper eBook business model that works for them. In the meantime we'll stick to pBooks.

01-22-2007, 11:02 AM	#69
bob_ninja Addict Posts: 208 Karma: 582 Join Date: Aug 2006 Device: Zire71	I bought 4 pBooks at a local store yesterday. All paperback of course. I already have a card that gives me 10% discount. I also had a $5 coupon. The total was about $42 before taxes and I paid $35 with taxes. I wonder if I already get all these discounts and paperback is a small light format already, then the pBook deal is at least as good as eBook deal and Reader advantages kind of melt away. 3 of the books I picked without prior info, by browsing shelves. Of course I like browsing shelves in a store. I don't think it would be as much fun to browse on-line. I wish I had Internet access to check ratings on books, but that is minor. I guess the Reader/Connect store combo just isn't very compeling. I will certainly buy it after they fix the initial problems, but probably not for literature which is generally cheap in pBook format. We will simply have to wait for publishers to clue in how much money they are wasting on pBook production as opposed to eBooks. Looks like they'll need a lot of time to create a proper eBook business model that works for them. In the meantime we'll stick to pBooks.