09-21-2010, 03:18 PM | #46 | |
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I notified Amazon about the poor digital copy and complained about the ridiculous price. They refunded my money. I also contacted Penguin complaining about both the formatting and the price. I got back what appeared to be a standard reply and they only addressed the price issue. I would have felt better if they said that they would look at the formatting. No more Penguin books for me! |
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09-21-2010, 05:37 PM | #47 | |
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09-21-2010, 07:04 PM | #48 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Fall-of-Giants...5109678&sr=1-1
You wusses complaining about Ken Follett's Fall of Giants being $19.99 when the hard cover is $19.40. The price to Canadians via Amazon.com Kindle store is $28.80 (US funds). You folks are getting a bargain! But wait! There's more! If you order in the next five minutes, for an additional $37.56 (US funds), we'll include a 1996 survey of Ken Follett's work, the 200 pg book from Greenwood Press. http://www.amazon.com/Ken-Follett-Cr...5109524&sr=1-9 All of this, I think, stems from this still being a nascent industry that is disruptive to a long established industry, and is in a growth phase, and where the consumer is also new and generally uninformed. All this means the e-book/e-reader e-ecosystem is likely to be much transformed in 18 months or so. And, bravo to that! |
09-21-2010, 07:24 PM | #49 |
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Here's a fresh example. Three weeks ago I joined the Doubleday Book Club. In joining I bought five books for $2.94 each (20 cents plus $2.74 shipping).
One of the books I bought was Star Island by Carl Hiaasen, which was #6 that week on the NY Times best seller list. Inkmesh says that its lowest eBook price is $9.99 at five stores. http://inkmesh.com/ebooks/star-islan...y+Carl+Hiaasen Now I understand that book clubs offer low prices. But if you are so concerned about maintaining the integrity of the MSRP of a new book, why do you let the book clubs have it in the first place? |
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ETA: Even more ridiculous is the fact that the paperback is $7.99 and the Kindle book is $13.99. Last edited by TomF; 09-22-2010 at 03:03 PM. |
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About Book Clubs: Remember that those book club come-ons are considered "promotional copies" by the publisher and don't pay the authors any royalty. |
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09-22-2010, 05:09 PM | #52 | |
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The author made his deal. If he doesn't get paid for my copy of the book, that's not my problem. |
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09-24-2010, 08:59 AM | #53 |
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I fully agree with you! It takes me less than 30 seconds to convert a book from HTML to EPUB, MOBI, LIT, etc. in Calibre. This article is a joke - I love "tech" reporters who think they know what they're talking about and dont have their facts straight and just start BSing.
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09-24-2010, 11:19 AM | #55 |
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I really hope some of the more established writers decide to go direct with their stuff. Not saying they should bypass an editor or layout artsts, but I would love to see more money going into the writer's hands than the old inefficient publishing systems.
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09-24-2010, 11:44 AM | #56 |
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Seems to me it's inevitable. Books aren't like music, television, or movies, with production costing millions of dollars. There are no expensive studios, sets, actors, lighting, or ancillary media licensing. There's no craft services. Books are created by one person and edited by another, then they're ready to sell.
Distributing heavy pieces of paper across the world and getting placement in thousands of disparate brick and mortar stores is a daunting problem, close to impossible for an author on his own. This alone justified publishing houses' existence. It no longer applies. |
09-24-2010, 11:06 PM | #57 | |
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To sell a book, even "just" an ebook these days you need so much more than just to be able to slap it together and put it on a shelf, waiting to bait a passerby. There's too many competing people on the market now to do a half-job of it. So in summary, I agree it's not a million-dollar job to get a book out there but it's still anything from $30,000~$100,000. Paul. |
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09-25-2010, 09:02 AM | #58 |
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I understand that Adobe Content Server has a per transaction license fee associated with it. I read that it's a fixed fee but varies with transaction volume. I checked the Adobe site and they don't publish what the fees are so you'd have to contact their sales department to find out. People that do know probably aren't allowed to tell you.
My speculation is that this fee is why B&N and Apple went with their own DRM on ePub. They already have developed/purchased their own DRM so why should they pay Adobe? It just makes their cost higher then Amazon. Even if it's a penny a transaction there's nothing stopping Adobe from raising it in the future and they would have to pay it or piss of their customers. |
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Does the publisher put some sort of restriction on how soon a public library can start distributing an ebook? I wonder if my library will have Fall of Giants anytime soon?
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09-27-2010, 10:28 AM | #60 |
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Folllet's Fall of Giants is now $9.99 for Canadian Kindlers. In other words, if you have a Canadian Address active on the Manage My Kindle page the price will be $9.99. It is still $19.99 with a US Address and around $14 for United Kingdom.
http://www.amazon.com/Fall-of-Giants...5597612&sr=1-3 I am 4th on the waiting list at our Library Overdrive system. It says release day September 28th. I'm hoping the 3 people in front of me won't keep it 21 days each but at this point I'm so grumpy about that $19.99 US price that I won't buy it. |
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