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Could you post your thoughts on it once you've read it? I'd like to here your thoughts.
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I think whether you think ebooks are superior or not is up to the individual consumer and may even vary as to the type of book. A person may like some books in hardcover, others in paperback, and still others as ebooks. It is nice to have that choice . |
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Definitely. I still buy (and prefer) reference books as hardbacks, for example. But novels, I'll take an eBook over a paperback any day.
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I would like to add to the current conversation on this issue that based on my background as a grad student in experimental psychology who did polls all the time, this is similar to the polls that I did all of the time. I think that my proffs would except this as a scientific poll.
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You're right, but somehow I think that increased prices will not yield a better product. Companies have become to beholden to the "do more with less" option in this economy, which means they won't have the staff size to proofread and do all the nice stuff, while they need the money so they'll charge out the wazoo for books.
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Imho, ebooks should be priced at most, the same as the cheapest (new) printed version available. What sucks is I can usually buy paperbacks and hardcovers with at least a 25% discount from Amazon but with the new agency pricing model, similar discounts and promotions don't exist for ebooks.
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As mentioned, you can't resell them. Also, you can't give them away, either. They may be more durable, but only if you work at maintaining their durability. Paper can last for centuries. They require working high-tech equipment to use, paper does not. Clearly a mixed bag. To me, as to you, I consider them a superior product - for my uses. I can't speak for other people, though... |
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That might have been a viable business model in the days before the internet, but it won't work now. Within a week of going on sale Amazon will be putting second hand copies on the same listing as the new one, and within a month there will be pirate versions showing up in Google searches. By the time the cheaper option becomes available most of its target audience will have already read it one way or another.
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Those people would be buying hardbacks regardless of whether there was an ebook available. The market for hardbacks is entirely different to the market for ebooks, just as it was different to the market for paperbacks and the market for second hand/library books.
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Not sure this poll is indicative of anything.
But want to say that in general, it'll be good for all of us if we can drive the prices on ebooks down. It's a growing, very lucrative market, that the publishers are feeling their way through and the more we as consumers can influence them towards a good healthy model, the better it'll be. |
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