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Old 10-20-2009, 09:33 AM   #5
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My biggest beef with cooler is the prices of books on their online store. For example, Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol sells for $23.96. Get real. All the big boys sell it for $9.99. They also sell public domain books for like $5 each. How anybody buys from them, I don't know.
That's the benefit of buying a device with ePub support - you are NOT tied in to buying from any one particular bookstore.

There's nothing particularly "wrong" with charging $5 for a nicely-formatted PD text. It takes a minimum of an hour or so's work to convert a PG book into something decently readable. How much is your time worth to you?
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