tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35428618.post6627497339045963907..comments2024-01-20T00:59:08.689+00:00Comments on Brave New World: Hear, See and Speak - No Used eBooks?Martyn Danielshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02134633193540004531noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35428618.post-70781355924952961152014-08-05T15:47:56.824+00:002014-08-05T15:47:56.824+00:00i don't agree with your forthright views on Am...i don't agree with your forthright views on Amazon not undertsanding publishing or writing and believe they probably know and understand more than many as they cover many channels, sectors have introduced offers others have failed to do since they wrapped themselves into the NBA in '64 and failed to ajust to when t collapsed.<br />Someone said to me last week that Amazon had done little for the market and frankly i was shocked. It was like hearing that sketch in The Life of Brian when they ask 'what have the Romans ever done for us.'<br />They then claimed that somebody else would have done it anyway and i was reminded of the saying, 'if you lock 100 monkeys in a room for a 100 years they still would not create the works of Shakespeare.'<br />The question of ownership is very important and one i am working into an article on with the news that Sony ereaders are going and no doubt may soon to be followed by another.<br /> Martyn Danielshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02134633193540004531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35428618.post-70688378450312431942014-08-05T15:23:08.549+00:002014-08-05T15:23:08.549+00:00Quote: "That is unjustifiably high for an e-b...Quote: "That is unjustifiably high for an e-book."<br /><br />Given that the context is merely the cost of printing and distributing print books, That remark hints at just how callous Amazon's corporate executives are about all the other costs of creating and selling a book. Amazon's problem isn't what it doesn't know about writing and publishing, but that it doesn't know what it doesn't know and apparently doesn't care,<br /><br />Keep in mind the costs involved here. Amazon's costs in selling an ebook is mere pennies. Its profit there is far higher than that for print books and its risks far less. More ebook sales for Amazon always means more profits, whatever price that ebook sells for. <br /><br />The same is not true for publishers. For publishers, books and ebooks require a substantial investment. They don't have Amazon's pennies per sale business model. They may need a price that is $15 to $20 or more simply to recoup their costs along with the costs of books that do lose money.<br /><br />Not to put too fine a point on it, Amazon is screwed up. Its executives understand no perspective but their own and care about little but their own market share and the large ebook profits that are being laundered to create that growing market share (i.e. subsidizing the sale of Kindles).<br /><br />That remark is also a clue to Amazon real attitude toward authors. Dismissing their place in the benefitting income that comes from print books sales isn't that removed from dismissing their place in the income derived from the sale of ebooks. <br /><br />----<br /><br />One remark about used ebooks (and music). I suspect the first battle will come over inheriting a digital estate that might include thousands of iTunes songs or Kindle books. A son or daughter is likely to go to court to acquire a father's digital collections. <br /><br />And what can be inherited, logic suggests, can also be sold as part of a probated will. In fact, if I were a probate lawyers, i'd be writing 'gets my iTunes music collection" and "gets my Kindle ebook collection" clauses into wills.<br /><br /><br />Inklinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05272203500649628022noreply@blogger.com