10-22-2017, 08:32 AM | #241 |
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Hmmm. Found £3.00 credit in my Kobo account but whether it's the settlement or an attempt to get me using Kobo I'm not sure. I've only ever purchased 11 books from them (3 in 2013, the rest earlier this year). The only reason I have an account is because I used to use a Kobo Touch (now retired because of firmware issues), and I purchased books not available (or cheaper than) on Amazon.
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10-22-2017, 09:03 AM | #242 |
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Odd, in addition to the Amazon credit I mentioned earlier, I just got a check for $28.
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10-22-2017, 01:26 PM | #244 |
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I received 4 checks today.
Most from closed stores (Sony, Borders, ARe), the other for books I purchased directly from Penguin. I've adjusted my book buying habits, but on days like today I do miss the glory days of Fictionwise (100% micropay!) and having so many more ebook sellers to choose from. |
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10-22-2017, 07:24 PM | #246 |
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The bottom line is that Amazon was very aggressive in the ebook market at that point, investing in an infrastructure that no one else in the business was close to matching. They were aggressively selling name ebooks under cost to capture market share. That, in addition to creating an infrastructure that made it very easy to buy ebooks and have them automatically download on the the kindle readers even if you didn't have wifi (their whispernet), and building the biggest inventory of ebooks by far was very hard to beat. Apple probably had the cash and marketing muscle to compete with them, but the anti-trust suit made them decide that the fix was in and it just wasn't worth the effort, thus there is little competition. The fact that Amazon quickly caved on agency pricing after the competition had dried up, showed that it was all about market share. Lack of competition is a bad thing for the consumer. |
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10-25-2017, 09:20 AM | #248 |
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I was excited to get a credit only to find my bride had used it unknowingly on another purchase! It looks like it doesn't apply to just ebooks.
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10-25-2017, 09:32 AM | #249 |
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That is BS and you know it. Shops like Fictionwise and BooksOnBoard were doing well before Agency. After Agency came into being and they had to renegotiate their business models had to be changed and those business modes were what made them stand out from the likes of Amazon. Lots of MR users shopped at these stores. There is no way they were going under before Agency.
Yes, some stores did go under and it was not from Agency. PaperBackDigital was one such store. But they only sold Mobipocket format eBooks and that was not sustainable with MS Reader and ePub. So please spare us this "Agency wasn't as fault" because it most surely was at fault. |
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I think Jon was joking.
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Jon, were you joking?
I'm guessing he isn't. |
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