eBook Prices - Is it just me…

[Nikosandros]

Amazon has been systematically making kindle worse to lock people into their device and prevent people from archiving their purchases.

They are trying to eliminate competition and then they will control pricing.

I refuse to buy from them since they eliminated download and transfer.

Same. I bought at least a thousand ebooks on Kindle, but I stopped the day they removed the option to download a copy on a PC.

 

[TaranTheWanderer]

You can get e-books through your local library. My daughter does all her reading on an e-reader and doesn't pay for them, she just 'borrows' them from the library. The down side is the time-limit to read it and the wait-list. Sometimes years for some books.

 

[Morrus]

If you have the mailing list already, then yes. I ship directly from the printer every time with the remainder going to the warehouse.

This is not a typical service provided by a printer. Printing and fulfilment are two entirely different things.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Same. I bought at least a thousand ebooks on Kindle, but I stopped the day they removed the option to download a copy on a PC.

I wonder if they bother justifying moves like this to the consumer. Do they try to spin it as a positive somehow, or do they just do it quietly and hope folks don't bother them about it?

 

[Micah Sweet]

You can get e-books through your local library. My daughter does all her reading on an e-reader and doesn't pay for them, she just 'borrows' them from the library. The down side is the time-limit to read it and the wait-list. Sometimes years for some books.

Why would there be a waiting list for a digital book? Can't you just provide access to another copy?

 

[Belen]

This is not a typical service provided by a printer. Printing and fulfilment are two entirely different things.

It has been my typical experience for the past 25 years.

 

[Morrus]

It has been my typical experience for the past 25 years.

I believe you. But your experience is not typical.

 

[TaranTheWanderer]

Why would there be a waiting list for a digital book? Can't you just provide access to another copy?

Because they’ve only paid for the rights to x amount of copies, I imagine.

 

[trappedslider]

Why would there be a waiting list for a digital book? Can't you just provide access to another copy?

I discovered that last year,and was laughed at over my confusion about it on here. I ended up doing an inter library loan on the book.

I just looked at a series and the ebook prices range from 6.99 USD to 8.99 USD, I mostly read books on kindle via the kindle unlimited.

 

[Belen]

Because they’ve only paid for the rights to x amount of copies, I imagine.

Yep. In the early days, libraries could get perpetual licenses. Now, the big vendors only give them subscriptions that include weekly or monthly usage counts. This allows them to enforce scarcity on non-scarce resource.