03-05-2009, 10:10 AM | #16 |
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With the publishers playing with the silly pricing right now I thought they were playing into Amazon's hands by driving the competition out of business. Amazon can afford to sell some titles below cost to try to maintain the $9.99 pricing they've been marketing but Fictionwise couldn't. From that perspective it's good they were bought by a company with deep pockets.
I think it was a good buy for B&N as well because Fictionwise was setup well to compete with Amazon but I didn't think they weren't big enough. Competition is a good thing for we the consumer. Time will tell though. |
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well, right, of course that. but it seems to me they could have achieved that via other means (maybe amazon-specific drm on epub ; after all, they are already doing that on mobipocket). not supporting epub and choosing mobipocket instead just seems like a pointless dispersion of energy.
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03-05-2009, 10:44 AM | #18 |
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Do you know what surprises me? Fictionwise wasn't bought by aPple. I guess aPple really isn't going to enter the ebook market.
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03-05-2009, 10:48 AM | #19 |
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So things are moving fast in the ebook world Kindle and iPhone, now this...
We will see how it goes, but I think this is a big opportunity - it's not that big a deal to setup an ebook store and if you cater to independents/multiformat there are no real bariers, so from that point of view I am not that worried; if BN shuts out independents they will go somewhere else. The downside to me is that BN can decide to pull the plug anytime; they lose some money, but for them it's pocket money and considering how they pulled the plug on their first ebook foray in the dot-com times - seems like a lifetime ago , but it's been not even a decade which is nothing on historical time scales... |
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...I would have put Amazon first in the queue.
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After doing Kindle Iphone app I would have very, very strong doubts about any chances of that; you could dismiss Stanza and the like as little fish, but no way Apple and Amazon do that together if Apple wants to do ebooks on their own.
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03-05-2009, 10:52 AM | #22 |
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Why? What would Amazon gain from owning Fictionwise? Amazon already has software companies, a hardware development company, and its own ebook store (two actually, Mobipocket and Kindle). Fictionwise doesn't add anything that Amazon doesn't already have.
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03-05-2009, 10:54 AM | #23 |
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....eliminating competition, driving all readers of ebooks into their hands ....
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03-05-2009, 10:58 AM | #24 |
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Why? What would Amazon have to gain other than cries of stifling the competition. Look how they quickly backed down on TTS since it became an embarrassment for no real gain since let us be honest, TTS is still mostly useless, unless you truly need it for disabilities
Amazon bought Abe because Abe had a very extensive network of used book sellers especially *outside* the US. Inside the US, Amazon already dominated the used book market, so no comparison here since for now Amazon does not sell ebooks outside the US and when they will do, Kindle store will do very well, no network of sellers needed. I would speculate that the most likely next big announcements will be Mobipocket closing (whenever Amazon is ready to sell ebooks overseas, Mobipocket lost its usefulness) or Sony and Borders doing a deal of a kind or another and involving ebooks too |
03-05-2009, 11:02 AM | #25 |
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I love Fictionwise and have a large library there.
But I'm also someone who loves to walk into a bookstore and just browse, surrounded by shelves full of adventures! Wouldn't it be nice if you could go into a B&N store, pick out some books, and hand the cashier your Kindle so they can be downloaded? Never gonna happen, I know, but I can dream... |
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yes, of course i could do it, but since i'm not a B&N customer (since they don't have any stores in France) it seems to me the letter might carry more weight if it came from someone a bit more immediately concerned by their decisions, ie someone who *is* a B&N customer.
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03-05-2009, 11:10 AM | #30 |
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Many of us have walked around book stores, Kindles in hand, downloading the books we discover there via Whispernet (if they've been converted). No need to hand the Kindle over for someone else to do it (keep your grimy unwashed fingers off my Kindle, book store employee!).
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