03-04-2012, 08:57 AM | #31 |
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People will always want a slightly faster screen refresh or a slightly larger screen. Gadget manufacturers will always find some new must-have feature to add to the latest annual product launch. I haven't noticed much of a slow down in new features being added to TV sets either. My latest kitchen one has an SD slot on the side.
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03-04-2012, 10:14 AM | #32 | |
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They should also apply the 20% tax on paper newspapers...which is actually worse than the book sector. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/...er-than-books/ http://tstcpublishing.wordpress.com/...-green-debate/ cleantech study: http://www.tkearth.com/downloads/thoughts_ereaders.pdf Last edited by markbot; 03-04-2012 at 10:21 AM. |
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03-04-2012, 10:28 AM | #33 |
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Paper books are a good use of paper. Paper books will go a long time before going into the landfill. Junk mail is tossed out without being read. Newspapers are tossed out the next day. Magazines are tossed out the next month.
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03-04-2012, 10:53 AM | #34 |
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Once again, to reiterate, the proper way to go about this is to price e-work lower than paperworks, not by taxing paperworks. A tax on paper is a silly idea.
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03-04-2012, 01:30 PM | #35 | |
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Pathetic is as pathetic does... you don't like paper, well tough, it's going to be around a lot longer than you and as for a lot of people reading books on tablets and computers (or even eReaders), so what... a lot is still a tiny minority of the world's population, the majority of whom still don't have access to eReading in any form... oh and paper is bio-degradeable or can be used as bio-fuel, more than you can say for a good part of electronic devices which are still not close to being totally recyclable... and why do you wish to destroy most of of the books of the last few centuries as no-one is even close to digitising them for any e-format... |
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03-04-2012, 02:13 PM | #36 | |
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In the US they do not have state sales tax on ebooks so in effect the tax on pbooks is already higher. I think they could probably even make it higher if they were really serious about environmental conservation. |
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03-04-2012, 02:43 PM | #37 |
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Books are still considered sacred by a large segment of the population.
The tax you propose could be construed as further penalizing people without ereaders, the poor, the less technologically advanced, students and those who live in areas without interent access. And of course it would be an excuse/incentive for publishers to raise the price of ebooks so that pbooks remain competitively priced. Making literature less accessible in any form seems distasteful and doing it by taxation is controlling to the point of Big Brother tactics. Helen |
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It is possible that the higher demand for ebooks would drive up the price on them. Also, in this new world ebooks are now transferable so there is a secondary market for ebooks. Ultimately, I think the secondary market would likely keep down the new ebook prices as the new ebooks would have to compete with the secondary market. On one hand, the demand for new ebooks goes up because of the pbook tax but on the other hand the demand declines because of the secondary market. Last edited by markbot; 03-04-2012 at 05:08 PM. |
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03-04-2012, 05:05 PM | #39 |
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What you're proposing is a system where prices of both paperbooks and e-books are jacked up.
There's a simple solution that you keep ignoring for some reason. Make it mandatory for ebooks to be priced "x%" lower than paperbooks. Thats it. |
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Yeah, but the secondary market for ebooks would keep the average price lower. In this world ebooks could also be lent like pbooks so elibraries could serve the entire country.
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Price ebooks lower than paperbooks, and you're done without the need for all the fluff. |
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And the fact any tax is going to be disportionately negative for the poor is an allowable disadvantage? Let them eat cake? Probably I am misreading your posts but you seem to be approaching this from a very self centered perspective. You are also bizarrely fixated on pbooks wasting paper, while ignoring the many other ways that paper products are used. Transient media such as newspapers etc, mailed documents, packing of shipped merchandise, packaging of fast food or TV dinners..... The list is endless. Pbooks do not in general get used only once and disposed of. I just do not perceive your arguments as echologically motivated or you would be addressing a wider area instead of concentrating on messing up the only way many people have to read their books. Helen |
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