![]() ![]() Therefore, Amazon Kindle has made a mark for itself in eBook industry. Now anyone from anywhere can access millions of books and start reading them within seconds. ![]() I got a really lovely copy of a book from Two Dollar Radio that's deckle-edged and fairly swoon-worthy.Īmazon has really changed the way we read books with Kindle. ![]() I even prefer to read on my Kindle still, I do enjoy reading paper books, too. Several years passed, and I remained firmly in the treebook camp. I can take an entire library with me anywhere, blah blah blah. Look at those loads of paper you're wasting You're helping deplete the ozone And it's so handy. In my defense, the people I antagonized started scuffles just as often. I want the feel of paper, blah blah blah. (Me Antagonize people Surely not.) I like books, I sniffed, looking solidly down my nose. Paying the overhead.Įbooks are better NO, TREEBOOKS NO, EBOOKS TECH JUNKIE DINOSAUR RAAAAGE I have to admit that, when the Kindle first came out, I was one of those snooty assholes who did everything I could to antagonize the people I knew who owned them. One of the things publishers point to in the production of ebook copies is the cost in preparing a book for sale. (See his arguments and the rebuttals here.) While I was going back over the calculations, I realized something that gave me a moment of whoa revelation Ebooks should also be lowering the price on print copies. ![]() Curt Matthews, CEO of IPG, popped by our blog to leave his comments I have to say, his response leads me to believe I'm onto something. That last post was pretty mathy, but it showed some important points namely, that digital copies can be profitable at lower price points, and a variety of lower price points at that. In our last Ebook-troversy post, I ran some numbers based on figures given out by Independent Publishers Group, who, if you recall, decided not to renew their ebook contract with Amazon because they couldn't come to an agreement over ebook prices. ![]()
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