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February ebook sales figures announced
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Now you lishen here...
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I just don't understand statistics. |
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You kids get off my lawn!
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And how about the stupid pricing policies a couple of the publishers are trying?
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Now you lishen here...
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That might be ePub. But the market for ebooks will explode when every device will display a common format. We may be years from that time. But it will come. |
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Btw, how did you find Coyote Horizon? |
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Example, Alastair Reynolds Zima Blue collection, which is a few years old now, even if not very common. Same with Neal Asher's Gabble and Other stories. Basically $50, for us. Insane. In that la-la land crippled electrons are worth several times more on some sort of crazy step function. Sales at these prices - good question - likely orders of magnitude lower - count on your fingers and toes perhaps. Also will completely miss the 'buy print and electronic' double, as who would pay $50, twice? Or even $50 and $20 when there's a paperback. Actually be cheaper to pay someone to scan it for you, in that case. Now, putting one out _before_ any other copy is could be worth more, no doubt. E.g. Baen e-Arcs, or other examples like that. Releasing a $18 Jack Chalker ebook that is decades old because you are pricing it the same as this new edition's physical format is crazypants. For a brand new book, probably some sensible argument for it being a little more at the start, and a little cheaper when not selling as much. High prices for garden variety mediocre old books is distinctly odd, as opposed to the Lord Of the Rings, which maybe you can get away with, the first time, at least. |
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It is a depression, not a recession.
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The recession is already over in the US, though it'll be another 6-9 months before the economy is really growing again and unemployment comes down.
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I do think that ePub will be that format.
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It's got a shot, but the whole no defined DRM could hinder it. It could get quite confusing, especially for the less technical folks who will help ebooks grow beyond what they are now, if we all of the sudden have Adobe epub, eReader epub, Mobi epub, etc. Unless by some miracle ADE and other readers are able to decode all the various DRM schemes and not just their own.
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