That bugs the crap out of me too. I understand the whole 'paying for new content' thing (sort of). But I should not be paying more then, say, the paperback price. There is book! It's electronic words! That massive process to create the paper thing is not there. I should get a break for that.
On Feb 9, 4:10 pm, Todd Elliott <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.maximumpc.com/article/columns/hard_case_addicted_app_store > > The thing that pisses me off most is that books companies want to charge > more than $10 for a freaking e-book. Are you kidding? There's almost no > distribution cost. If they sell 1 copy a month, that would almost pay for > the hosting. > > I know Amazon is subsiding their shitty reader, but that's Amazon, not the > publisher. > > A lot of people pay more than that for Hardbacks that just come out, etc. > But they can't expect a digital format to command the same premium as a > physical format. That's exactly like the music industry and mp3s/cds. > > --------------------------------------------- > Todd Elliott > [email protected]http://www.theuniquegeek.com/http://www.google.com/profiles/thelliott -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
