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delphidb96 · 03-21-2010, 01:50 PM

Okay, I'm now beginning to wonder why I bother differentiating between FW and eReader as at neither site was I able to buy TC in (Secure) Mobipocket format. Well, there *was* the fact that I'd have paid $18.99 through eReader and I 'only' got socked for $16.11 through FW. Now the stupidity of paying that much for an ebook version when I could have purchased it for $6.99 at the bookstore in paperback or even paid just $3.50 for a 'used' mmpb at one of our local used book stores.

Sure, for the time being (and there's no set date when all this 'goodness' will end) I 'get' a 100% micropay rebate - but that's just another way of saying that somewhere down the line I get a discount on some other book - as I *must* cough up my hard-earned money to them for a future 'promise'. I don't *expect* FW to fail between now and Monday, but what if it does? All my micropay credits disappear. That means I'll have paid 'better than paperback' for a previously released title.

Now John Sargent of MacMillan would like me, and you, to believe that this more-than-doubling of the ebook prices over paper books to actually 'cost' the publishers more and return less of a 'profit' but only a congenital idiot would believe such crap. I am definitely NOT a congenital idiot - thus I fully smell the ripe, rotting aroma arising from the new pricing policies that allow Grisham's publisher to vastly overcharge the readers on an older title. Can you?

Derek

03-21-2010, 01:50 PM	#49
delphidb96 Wizard Posts: 2,999 Karma: 300001 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Citrus Heights, California Device: TWO Kindle 2s, one each Bookeen Cybook Gen3, Sony PRS-500, Axim X51V	So I purchased "The Client" through Fictionwise... Okay, I'm now beginning to wonder why I bother differentiating between FW and eReader as at neither site was I able to buy TC in (Secure) Mobipocket format. Well, there was the fact that I'd have paid $18.99 through eReader and I 'only' got socked for $16.11 through FW. Now the stupidity of paying that much for an ebook version when I could have purchased it for $6.99 at the bookstore in paperback or even paid just $3.50 for a 'used' mmpb at one of our local used book stores. Sure, for the time being (and there's no set date when all this 'goodness' will end) I 'get' a 100% micropay rebate - but that's just another way of saying that somewhere down the line I get a discount on some other book - as I must cough up my hard-earned money to them for a future 'promise'. I don't expect FW to fail between now and Monday, but what if it does? All my micropay credits disappear. That means I'll have paid 'better than paperback' for a previously released title. Now John Sargent of MacMillan would like me, and you, to believe that this more-than-doubling of the ebook prices over paper books to actually 'cost' the publishers more and return less of a 'profit' but only a congenital idiot would believe such crap. I am definitely NOT a congenital idiot - thus I fully smell the ripe, rotting aroma arising from the new pricing policies that allow Grisham's publisher to vastly overcharge the readers on an older title. Can you? Derek