10-08-2012, 11:02 AM | #46 | |
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Didn't get the publishers that created ePUBs to actually use those capabilities, in general. I doubt whether KF8 will |
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10-08-2012, 11:04 AM | #47 |
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Quite a few ePub books use drop caps, embedded fonts, etc.
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10-08-2012, 12:13 PM | #48 |
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I'd kind of prefer that they didn't, to be honest.
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10-08-2012, 12:20 PM | #49 |
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Nope! I will wait til long after the PB comes out. By then the ebook price really drops! Also all the errors have been corected.
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10-08-2012, 12:47 PM | #50 | |
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Some of the books I have, use bad scans of the title page for the cover. Stephen King's back catalog seems to be really bad about this. Gerald's Game originally included a drawing for the background of the Title Page, but it was scanned in as black/white, so with the shading, the drawing is almost totally black. It's also fairly pixelated. I mean, it just pisses me off. If you want me to pay as much or more for an ebook, I want it to be at least of the same quality as the paper book. Way I look at it, I am getting a lower quality product (bad scans, missing or shoddy covers) with more restrictions (no lending, no resale, often no refunds), so I shouldn't be expected to pay as much. Instead, whenever I buy a book, if I want it to look presentable, I am expected to strip the DRM, find and insert a scan of the normal cover, and correct typos from OCR errors. Plus, I've had to prune the tags on the ebooks, because not that long ago my wife's PRS300 started locking up, because it got bogged down with the number of tags on the books. She has about 400 books on her reader, and some of the books had an insane amount of tags. One had 65(!) tags. Which also, the Sony readers have Collections, that generate based on tags. She had more pages of collections (with 10 per page) than she had total books on her reader. |
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10-08-2012, 12:56 PM | #51 |
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Nope I would not, in fact I don't ...
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10-08-2012, 02:57 PM | #52 | |
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10-08-2012, 03:08 PM | #53 |
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There's no costs with materials, print, transportation. The cost of a single download once a transaction is successful is negligible compared to the physical way. It's a highly artificial price still trying to account for costs and careers that don't have any relevance any more. The author only gets about 2% of retail price? Cut about all 90% of that and give the author more like 80% and you get a fair price for an ebook. |
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10-08-2012, 04:25 PM | #55 | |
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10-08-2012, 07:37 PM | #56 |
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Ditto. I buy based on what I can afford and how badly I want it. Paper vs. ebook doesn't factor into it, and the only accounting involved is my own budget.
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10-08-2012, 09:06 PM | #57 |
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[QUOTE=jayne80;2251224]err.... I would just like to point out at this moment in time you should be comparing it to the hard back price as the paperback doesn't come out until next year, by which time the kindle price will probably have dropped.
In answer to your question, it depends on how much I want to read the book NOW, and what the chances are of it coming down in price.[/QUOTE My answer would be, if you want it, if you want to read it.. buy it.. what's a few bucks for your pleasure? no big deal.. Doug |
10-08-2012, 09:59 PM | #58 |
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spindlegirl, do you realize that un-drming an ebook is a very simple process using freely available, widely used, and perfectly safe software? Once the drm-free version is backed up on your PC, it's completely yours.
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10-08-2012, 10:25 PM | #59 |
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Once the paperback version comes out, I expect the ebook to drop as well, and be lower than that price. I'm fine with paying the $13 or whatever it is for a new book if I want to read a new book that badly, but I won't pay that much for an older book. If I am willing to wait for it to come out in paperback and for the price to drop, I don't care about the book enough where I NEED to have it and will pay whatever it costs. If the price doesn't come down, I can find something else to read.
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10-08-2012, 10:47 PM | #60 |
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Hmmmm...
As it has been with paper for my whole life, I will spend more for a good hardback because it's a collectable object, and I'll pay new paperback prices for other books (paper or ebook) if that's the only way I can get them. But generally, I pay used book prices for most of my reads. At $4-5 I can afford to read a variety of books. At higher than that, I really can't. So in answer to your question: if the ebook is priced higher than a paperback, no I don't buy it. I don't begrudge the publisher the higher price, I just don't buy it. I wait until it's cheaper, or there's a sale, or I find it used or at the library. Camille |
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