04-12-2012, 11:31 AM | #61 |
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NYT link worked for me. They have limited non-subscribers to only 10 articles, though.
They are called "the newspaper of record" by some. I never read it unless linked there by someone. |
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04-12-2012, 11:56 AM | #63 |
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I stopped using the Times when they limited access.
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1) I think the NYT advertises that you can get up to 10 (formerly 20) free articles a week. I suspect that your difference between the two visits could be that you hit your limit. If this is true, and if you weren't logged in, then its probably due to a cookie. So deleting the cookie or installing a cookie manager might change this. I know this isn't a great solution, I'm just suggesting that its something to try. 2) When I saw this thread, I remembered reading about this Amazon announcement. However, a google search proved to have a tough time locating the announcement. This NYT source was the only one that I saw that referenced the announcement. |
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EDIT: I just checked again. Still working. |
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And we do that with the Fire too. In a few cases, we want a specific something - the next Terry Pratchett, or the next in some other series - but usually people already are reading many. I doubt Amazon will suffer. Example, I read to my wife nightly. Currently, most evenings, it's a Jewish joke book. (She's Jewish.) We didn't really care which such book. That's how it works. |
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The last dust-up led to Amazon caving. The books got pulled. Amazon customers screamed, "Where are the ______ books????" Amazon surrendered.
The Amazon forum has been replete with complaints saying, "Why are ebooks so expensive? I bought a Kindle to save money. Amazon is ripping us off!!!!" |
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Today the millions of people whose first Kindle is the Kindle 3, K4, KT have no history with the $9.99 price point. That went away 2 years ago. Most Kindle owners have paid sales tax on all of their books the entire time they owned their Kindles. Different users, different expectations.
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As for buying something else, I've done it a couple of times, but if I go to a shop to buy a specific game or book (when I still used to shop off-line for books) and they didn't have it, I went to another store. That's one of the reasons Amazon used to get the majority of my paper book buying, it was very rare they didn't have the book I wanted available for shipping. I think Amazon could have managed to convince customers to buy other authors had just Macmillan pulled out and in time authors would put pressure on Macmillan to get their books in the highest grossing store, but Amazon probably knew the rest of the big publishers would follow and that would likely be too big a loss. Even more so at a time when they're still growing their user base and locking customers into the kindle. Existing customers would likely make do with the odd missing title since they can't use any other store to buy their kindle books (those who don't know or want to DRM free their books). But, if Amazon lost too many publishers, new buyers might go with non kindle devices where the stores have a wider selection. |
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