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Originally Posted by NightGeometry
Was it on here that I read someone talking about Amazon being a cloud computing company, the book store is 'just' a reference / proof of concept implementation. (That's obviously not currently true, but it actually may be at some point).
Anyway - just because Amazon have those things, doesn't mean it doesn't cost anything. If ebooks start to sell for $2, then pbook sales go down, then Amazon's costs need to come completely out of ebooks, and the price rockets.
Personally I understand that a books cost is not just the unit cost, and that that is a potential small part of cost. However, surely the balance is sell 10 copies @ £20 or 1000 @ £1. The latter is obviously the better value proposition for ebooks, but likely not for pbooks. Then again someone was quoted recently pointing out that most readers have a shortage of time over money. If the price of books were 1/10 what they are now, I wouldn't suddenly read 10 as many books. I suspect a lot of people here are also in that position, we are by our nature voracious readers. However if the average person only reads a few books a year (just the years best sellers), then they are unlikely to read more without some prompting, and they seem extremely unlikely to buy an ereader given that value proposition.
I'd guess the push for news papers and magazines on devices is one way of prompting people to buy more books. Get people to read their paper on an ereader, and suddenly they could also use the same device for books...
(I go off topic so often, I don't even remember what the original discussion was about.)
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That is a bad comparison. I said new release £10 and the eBook should be £5. Like I said before Amazon has everything in place they could do this so easily. I haven't checked a lot but new releases eBook prices on Amazon are a bit cheaper than hardcover ones.
The current eBook Readers are people who bought a device that can do nothing else but store and display eBooks. These are the people they shouldn't be trying to screw over, yet they are and I will not be one.