12-26-2021, 12:40 PM | #61 | |
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I agree with what others have said about so much junk being out there. Back to the topic of this thread, my strategy is to be aggressive at stopping when a book doesn't engage me. I've gotten to the point where I can tell rather quickly and I don't feel bad about stopping since there are so many more in the queue. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08QH8WY4G Last edited by hobnail; 12-26-2021 at 12:43 PM. |
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Steam and GOG are competitors where they also battle with Microsoft and others. They do notify you when items on your wishlist are on sale. And as mentioned, Amazon had some involvement with ereaderiq and then stopped. So it's not like nobody at Amazon ever thought of it. eReader IQ loses Amazon funding A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program Last edited by ZodWallop; 12-26-2021 at 01:37 PM. |
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12-26-2021, 06:09 PM | #63 | |
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12-26-2021, 07:15 PM | #64 | |
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Please don't misunderstand me. I do not think it is their duty to do so. Whatever the reasons behind their monopoly on the ebook market, it can be used to explain their behavior vs. Steam and GOG. |
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12-26-2021, 08:02 PM | #65 | |
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12-26-2021, 10:10 PM | #66 | |
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12-26-2021, 11:01 PM | #67 |
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I think Amazon has developed a good revenue stream from advertising (‘promoted’ products) and they no longer have any incentive to send out price drop notifications just because you added something to a wish list (they’d rather you buy at regular price).
By contrast, the affiliates/associates program perhaps was not as effective, i.e. Amazon had to share revenue with said associate. |
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There are so many authors churning out books these days, even printed books, that I think that the temporary free and discounted ebooks are a good device for the authors to promote themselves and get noticed. In any event it certainly works for me as a way to learn about good authors. Last edited by hobnail; 12-26-2021 at 11:23 PM. |
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12-27-2021, 08:24 AM | #69 |
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Along with their dominance of the ebook market, Amazon long neglected the UI of their ebook devices. Their lack of interest in promoting the best deals on ebooks seem to mirror their apathy toward attracting customers. After all, all their books are stored by Amazon. How else will they access and read them? Buyers are locked into their ecosystem, so why make an effort? True, some will leave, but the vast majority will remain for convenience and a tendency to remain with what they know.
The same reasoning explains their indifference toward technical innovation. Why do potentially wasteful research? Amazon can let your competitors do the innovating, then just copy it once the technology is proven. This means that Amazon don't have to try that hard. They've done the leg work, now they can sit back. |
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Not necessarily. It is well-known that it is possible to make a higher return by selling fewer units at a higher price. It seems reasonable to suppose that this particularly applies to wish list items.
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12-27-2021, 09:38 AM | #71 |
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The notion that Amazon isn't willing to do (and does) spend vast millions on potentially wasted research is as laughable as it it is false. Maybe not in reader ui technology per se, but then there's only so much money one SHOULD spend on something as simple as "read words, turn page".
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So far this year, I've finished 156, and have just marked my 50th DNF at The Storygraph - breathing down the neck of 1 DNF for every 3 finished. It's been liberating to feel no shame about dropping a book, for whatever reason, instead of feeling some sort of obsessive compulsion to finish just because. A sizeable number of this year's DNFs were VERY early purchases in my switch from Kindle to Kobo, covers and synopses that looked and sounded promising but in the end did not deliver. If I crack the ton of DNFs this year, I would consider that a MAJOR achievement in my reading life. |
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04-28-2022, 02:57 PM | #74 |
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It’s such a great feeling when you decide to abandon a book; the realization that, “It’s not me, it’s the book.” Yesterday I abandoned one of this year’s hot novels, Booth, by Karen Joy Fowler, a popular author. It’s a historical novel about the family of that Booth. Golly, it was tedious and with nothing of insight or interest to say that I could see. And long! After I abandoned it, I took a quick look at the reviews and was delighted (because who doesn’t like confirmation?) to find a stinker in the NYT. The WaPo and the Guardian loved it, however.
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