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iMaculate · 10-09-2009, 12:39 PM

Thanks for all your feedback. The dust has settled a bit, so I can stand back and see a bit clearly now.

The fact of the matter is that the publishing/bookselling industry is on the cusp of major overhaul. At the Frankfurter book fair taking place this month we should see a number of new e-book readers (such as the txtr) as well as some announcements (color e-book reader from Barnes and Nobel). But this is only the start. The publishers have to examine their cockamamie handling of international rights to their books or at least acknowledge that these need an overhaul. Simply put: publishers rights should not depend on the medium or geographical locatsion but instead on the content. Like I said in my initial posting here: as a consumer I see no reason why I am barred from buying the kindle version of a book that I can purchase at amazon.com as a print version.

But the publishers should also rethink their pricing: price should depend on the medium - it makes no sense to charge almost the same price for paper book than a downloaded e-book (which marginally costs them nothing). I checked this on some of the books I had purchased recently at amazon and the biggest saving was 2 dollars. And for that I would have to buy a kindle.

So I cancelled my order the same day and will now await the end of the Frankfurter book fair.

Happy reading!

10-09-2009, 12:39 PM	#32
iMaculate Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2009 Device: Kindle	Thanks for all your feedback. The dust has settled a bit, so I can stand back and see a bit clearly now. The fact of the matter is that the publishing/bookselling industry is on the cusp of major overhaul. At the Frankfurter book fair taking place this month we should see a number of new e-book readers (such as the txtr) as well as some announcements (color e-book reader from Barnes and Nobel). But this is only the start. The publishers have to examine their cockamamie handling of international rights to their books or at least acknowledge that these need an overhaul. Simply put: publishers rights should not depend on the medium or geographical locatsion but instead on the content. Like I said in my initial posting here: as a consumer I see no reason why I am barred from buying the kindle version of a book that I can purchase at amazon.com as a print version. But the publishers should also rethink their pricing: price should depend on the medium - it makes no sense to charge almost the same price for paper book than a downloaded e-book (which marginally costs them nothing). I checked this on some of the books I had purchased recently at amazon and the biggest saving was 2 dollars. And for that I would have to buy a kindle. So I cancelled my order the same day and will now await the end of the Frankfurter book fair. Happy reading!