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dyrinn45 · 04-08-2010, 11:45 PM

Well i just filed my taxes and was going to spend a lot of money on books. I had $387 dollars worth of books on my ebook wishlist from B&N alone. I trimmed out all the agency 5 books, my new total is $67.00 from B&N, and $14.00 from the sony book store.

I hope that they get the message, i know they cant say "oh man we missed out on $320" because they never new they were going to get it...but i hope in the long term their sales fall and they see what a scam this is. And that was just 320 at B&N, my sony bookstore was probably close to $100.00, so i hope others are doing this, and i hope it hurts their pocket books enough that they get out of this.

EDIT: dmaul1114 this to me is not about getting it as cheap as possible. to me it is taking some new emerging market and completely destroying it. i have seen so many books that have mmpb books up for 5-7 dollars but have the ebook price of 12+ dollars. Not to mention they are completely destroying the ability for free market competition. People will say this generates competition, but it doesn't. If every site offers the next Twilight book for the same price, how does that create competition? Exactly. So we the public are stuck with whatever publishers think the ebook is worth(usually as much or more than HC on release). And this is just rediculous

04-08-2010, 11:45 PM	#34
dyrinn45 Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: nook	Well i just filed my taxes and was going to spend a lot of money on books. I had $387 dollars worth of books on my ebook wishlist from B&N alone. I trimmed out all the agency 5 books, my new total is $67.00 from B&N, and $14.00 from the sony book store. I hope that they get the message, i know they cant say "oh man we missed out on $320" because they never new they were going to get it...but i hope in the long term their sales fall and they see what a scam this is. And that was just 320 at B&N, my sony bookstore was probably close to $100.00, so i hope others are doing this, and i hope it hurts their pocket books enough that they get out of this. EDIT: dmaul1114 this to me is not about getting it as cheap as possible. to me it is taking some new emerging market and completely destroying it. i have seen so many books that have mmpb books up for 5-7 dollars but have the ebook price of 12+ dollars. Not to mention they are completely destroying the ability for free market competition. People will say this generates competition, but it doesn't. If every site offers the next Twilight book for the same price, how does that create competition? Exactly. So we the public are stuck with whatever publishers think the ebook is worth(usually as much or more than HC on release). And this is just rediculous Last edited by dyrinn45; 04-08-2010 at 11:49 PM.