Thread: Amazon's $9.99 eBook Attacked as "Predatory Pricing"
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Old 12-19-2009, 12:50 PM   #116
delphidb96
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Originally Posted by captaingeorges View Post
This type of pricing by Amazon and others like Fictionwise, should make the authors and publishers very very happy instead of mad...

In the past I used to wait for a book to be in paperback to buy it (9-10 a year) and the rest of my reading was done by buying books in second hand bookstore.

I got my Cybook in March 2008. So far I have bought 180 books...

The math should not be too hard to do...


Merry Christmas to all!


Georges
435! *PLUS* 192 from eReader.com!=. And another 150 from Baen and 30 from Amazon. Can't say that having a dedicated ebook reader has slowed my purchasing of stories.

If anything, knowing, now that I have a Kindle, that I can purchase and read an ebook just about anywhere I can get cell signals has boosted the likelihood I'll choose reading over any other "I gotta kill time while waiting" activity. Netbooks? Too bulky and awkward to hand-hold. PDAs? Too limited. Same with iPod Touch. Cell phones? I'm not rich enough to be able to afford one of those gee-whiz iPhone or Droid wonders - not with the initial price and the *MASSIVE* contracts involved. Nope, even my Kindle 2 is small enough to carry with me and light enough to use with just one hand.

Predatory pricing that sucks me in and makes me a loyal customer? Amazon, please keep on killing me with kindness! (About to become a TWO K2 household as the latest "broken" K2 I got on eBay ($47.40 w/shipping) is within warranty and Amazon's fixing it for free.)

Derek
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