On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:25 PM, John Sundman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 2) In my inbox today a nice note from Amazon announcing a million or so > ebook titles in the Kindle Direct Publishing program (including my 3 > books, yay), are now available in India, through Amazon.com. I wonder if > this will change your buying habits? Or were those of you who purchase & > read ebooks in India already able to find the books you wanted through > other sources? > It is certainly a good start. Publisher pricing of ebooks needs significant tweaking, because books in the subcontinent are heavily discounted wrt US list prices. To take just one random example: "The Ruby Programming Language" from O'Reilly, costs: Rs. 1,172 in the kindle store now, while the paperback has an official list price of ~575, with up to 25% discounts easy to come. There is absolutely no way I am going to change my purchasing behavior with those sort of pricing discrepancies. I have noticed that kindle editions of your own books are very attractively priced. A great move, I think. But such deals are clearly hard to discover, and consequently the whole platform suffers from an image problem. All that said, I have purchased Kindles as gifts for family members and loaded them up with free, out-of-copyright books. The availability of large numbers of "classics" makes it a great gift item for people who are into reading. I gave one to my sister, for e.g., to encourage her to free up some shelf space :) But I am still holding out on buy one for myself.
