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Comment on Apple iPad - the e-book shakeup begins by Carla Insco

Carla Insco — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:36:31 +0000

While I believe that Apple’s tactics are a little foolish, there’s nada saying that these providers must do business with Apple. It’s Apple’s game, and if you need to work in it (as a provider OR as a consumer), you’re going to have to execute by their silly rules. I personally believe it is fun trying to dig up the rumours and news leaks and guess what Apple will do next. Its even more fun going back and looking at those leaks and rumours after the merchandise announcement to ascertain just how close they are.

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Comment on End of the road for Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror by Kathline Bellina

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Comment on Apple iPad - the e-book shakeup begins by Hoger

Hoger — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:07:23 +0000

For my mind the iPad doesn’t matter. It will sell well as a digital consumption device and some people will buy it as an e-reader. But it’s Apple in the e-book market that interests me most.

Amazon and the Kindle was the first shoe dropping, Apple entering the market is the second. Mayhem to follow (in a good way).

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Here Comes the Fear Again | Random Acts of Literary Vandalism — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:30:41 +0000

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Comment on Apple iPad - the e-book shakeup begins by Damon Cavalchini

Damon Cavalchini — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:16:53 +0000

Howdy,

I seem to have been appointed as the generic iPad defender so I’ll steer away from that this time and defend macmillian.

My problem with Amazon’s move is their complete cheek in claiming they want to restrict books to $10 on their Kindle store.

The most expensive e-book in the Kindle store (from a really quick search) is $322 for the World Bank’s Global Development Finance 2008.

You can pick up Robert Woof’s William Wordsworth: The Critical Heritage, Volume One 1793-1820 for a meager $242 (a saving of $58 according to Amazon). In terms of fiction fiction, I can pick up a collection of Edward Longo’s Short Stories with a supernatural flavour for a mere $66.95.

Sure these are extreme examples (and there no macmillian titles in their cause I can’t see them any more).

Some e-books would be cheaper. Some would be more expensive. Much like it is now.

As Macmillian explained in response to their Amazon banning - “Under the agency model, we will sell the digital editions of our books to consumers through our retailers. Our retailers will act as our agents and will take a 30% commission (the standard split today for many digital media businesses). The price will be set the price for each book individually. Our plan is to price the digital edition of most adult trade books in a price range from $14.99 to $5.99. At first release, concurrent with a hardcover, most titles will be priced between $14.99 and $12.99. E books will almost always appear day on date with the physical edition. Pricing will be dynamic over time.”

Which, to me at least, seems to be a fairly standard business model.

And as demonstrated in the examples above, Amazon does have titles priced way above the supposed $10 cap they want for Macmillian.

It is easy to believe that Amazon’s snit has nothing to do the pricing structure suggested by Macmillian and everything to do with a fear of Apple entering the field of e-publishing.

And the most curious thing about the whole debate is that the iPad is not even an e-Reader. It is a multi-purpose device that reads e-books.

Which to me is a core distinction. If I were Amazon I would be focussing on this (Want a true e-reading experience - get a Kindle. Books, we do them).

Cheers,
Damon

Comment on Apple iPad - the e-book shakeup begins by Hoger

Hoger — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:10:27 +0000

They’re nice screens.

I think we’ll continue to see a shakeup over the next few years while the technology matures further. But I’d love to see someone hack the iPad and put a screen like this on the front of it instead of the LCD.