E-Book pricing...

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   FWIW:
Why e-books cost so much - CNET News

Rather interesting, though I have no idea to a lot of the claims. But I've always wondered why there isn't a really humongous price difference between printed and electronic.

 We buy very few books, (printed) unless we can find them at a cheap price.  

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Karl_db Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 29255	Quote Reply Topic: E-Book pricing... Posted: 14 Apr 2012 at 10:10am
	FWIW: Why e-books cost so much - CNET News Rather interesting, though I have no idea to a lot of the claims. But I've always wondered why there isn't a really humongous price difference between printed and electronic. We buy very few books, (printed) unless we can find them at a cheap price.

Don Watkins Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Admin Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 22193	Quote Reply Posted: 14 Apr 2012 at 10:16am
	Publishers are like the recording industry was and their days are numbered, they should adapt and change or they'll simply go away and authors will self publish. Nor am I buying a lot of the "cost" of an e-book, think publishers got to the author.

Karl_db Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 29255	Quote Reply Posted: 14 Apr 2012 at 10:41am
	IMHO. Except perhaps perishables...most stuff could be direct-shipped from manufacturers if they'd get (a) it setup and (b) develop a decent and reliable direct-shipping system. Heck..it might save the USPS for smaller items. I'm thinking of regular normal consumable items...not things like tiller or car parts that are needed once in a blue-moon. By reliable shipping, to me: fast, cheap, you get what you ordered and in one piece. (And easy to send back if not.) Oh...plus a good ordering system that's simple and fast to use at the point-of-sale. Searching for auto-parts this last week, I'd swear some companies don't want you to find what you're looking for. (When I was browsing at Troy-Bilt for parts (owned by MTD now)...I started to order the drive belts. (I found some locally, supposed to be the same...but just don't fit or work quite as well.) Anyhow...$17 for the belts....$14 shipping; I didn't order.

Don Watkins Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Admin Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 22193	Quote Reply Posted: 14 Apr 2012 at 12:23pm
	That's what I like about Amazon. Heck, I even got some anti-freeze from them a while back.

Karl_db Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 29255	Quote Reply Posted: 14 Apr 2012 at 12:33pm
	Now that surprises me...that they'd ship anti-freeze.

Don Watkins Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Admin Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 22193	Quote Reply Posted: 14 Apr 2012 at 12:35pm
	I swear they'll ship anything unless, I'm guessing, it's an explosive. I doubt I saved anything but I had no Wal-mart trips planned for the near future and I needed it bad and there it was 2 days later right at the front door.

Karl_db Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 29255	Quote Reply Posted: 14 Apr 2012 at 7:27pm
	I figure as long as it don't cost me more! Thinking of book (reading material) prices...: We stopped at a Kroger store this evening, which we rarely do...so I browsed a bit to see what all they had. I happened to notice a magazine rack and checked it out. Cool...they had the special edition of National Geographic Cats and Dogs Sigh. I figured they'd want maybe 5 or 6 bucks for it. Nope...$11.99. I passed. Now I might pay a couple of bucks on an e-reader to read it once...and look at the pics. LOL

Don Watkins Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Admin Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 22193	Quote Reply Posted: 14 Apr 2012 at 7:36pm
	$12!!!! Yeow.

Karl_db Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 29255	Quote Reply Posted: 14 Apr 2012 at 7:41pm
	Don't know if you can read it all for free or just part of it at the link above. Repeated here: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/cats-and-dogs Just read about Alex the parrot and other smart critters.

Don Watkins Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Admin Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 22193	Quote Reply Posted: 16 Apr 2012 at 3:55pm
	Not really about ebooks but this article articulated a lot of stuff that I just couldn't and it does so in the best way I've seen yet. Pirates not to blame for Big Media's sales plunge Bottom line it's adapt or die and most everybody, including me, fails to do that. At least in my case I didn't have far to fall but there are some major dinosaur companies out there that are too blind to work out another model.

Karl_db Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 29255	Quote Reply Posted: 16 Apr 2012 at 5:09pm
	Adapt or die. Of course, using the theory of evolution as an example...it would be helpful to know which direction at the fork in the road to take.

Don Watkins Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Admin Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 22193	Quote Reply Posted: 16 Apr 2012 at 5:14pm
	Yup and I'm not smart enough to figure that out but there are people that are and those big companies should be smart enough to grab some of them. I just loved the riff on Oracle.

Karl_db Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 29255	Quote Reply Posted: 24 Apr 2012 at 3:00pm
	Hmm. That reminds me of something I read yesterday about e-book pricing and Apple, if I can find it. Found it: Amazon is Obama's Mistress - Katie Kieffer But another interesting result popped up in search results: Is Amazon Inside Apple's OODA Loop?

Don Watkins Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Admin Group Admin Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 22193	Quote Reply Posted: 24 Apr 2012 at 3:12pm
	I didn't much buy the first article but the 2nd is very interesting.

Karl_db Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 29255	Quote Reply Posted: 24 Apr 2012 at 3:38pm
	Yeah...that first one seemed...well...just a little over the top. Which is why I didn't post it when I first read it. But glad I searched for it and ran into the second one today. Gotta love that Department of almost Justice. No idea how I wound up here today. Guess I never deleted the last notification from my email account..and though your last post was a new one from today. Oh well....hard to be perfect all the time.