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iBookstore pricing revealed
Smashwords’ iPad Deal Details eBook Pricing Structure
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And that $14.99 cap we were hearing about is also a myth; it just covers a lot of bestsellers--the $29.99 ones. Textbooks, often costing more than $40 for paper, can be priced to anything the publisher wants, along with mmpb/trades priced higher than $22. (Some RPG books are in this category, and some workbooks.) |
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03-29-2010, 05:32 PM | #2 |
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The pricing seems reasonable to me.
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03-29-2010, 05:35 PM | #3 |
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Excuse my ignorance, what is smashwords?
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03-29-2010, 05:42 PM | #4 |
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03-29-2010, 05:51 PM | #5 |
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03-29-2010, 06:13 PM | #6 |
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Buying books from an online vendor (Amazon, B&N ect.) tends to be a habit. I always check out Amazon first just because it's where I am used to going not that it's the best.
Because both Amazon and B&N are going to have readers for the iPad I think Apple should give anyone that buys an iPad a 5% discount on the first 20 books they buy. This would get people used to trying Apple first. Last night I made of list of some of the books I want to put on the iPad, priced checked them at both Amazon and B&N. Eight out of ten were the same price with B&N being lower on the other two. It will be interesting to see how Apple compares when the store goes live. |
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