{"id":3519,"date":"2009-02-26T12:17:54","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T17:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=3519"},"modified":"2009-02-26T12:17:54","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T17:17:54","slug":"kindleicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/kindleicious","title":{"rendered":"Kindleicious"},"content":{"rendered":"

To celebrate the arrival of my new Kindle (I sold my first-gen model for $270 on Amazon last week), here are a bunch of articles about e-book pricing and why publishers are scared crapless by the example of Apple and iTunes:<\/p>\n

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  1. Kassia Kroszer, who writes wonderfully about this stuff on her blog, argues that $9.99 is tops for what consumers will pay<\/a>. I agree, as there are a number of Kindle books that I’ve blown off because they’re priced above that, including the new translation of War & Peace<\/em> (which I finally bought a minute ago after the price dropped from $22+ to $8.96).<\/li>\n
  2. Here’s an interview with Ms. Kroszer<\/a>!<\/li>\n
  3. Here’s a publisher at HarpersStudio explaining why paper, printing and binding (PPB) only account for about $2.00 of a book’s price<\/a>, and therefore why Kindle books need to cost a lot more than $10. It looks like he doesn’t account for bookstore returns in that estimate; overprinting and getting stuck with tons of unsold copies doesn’t occur with an e-verison, of course. And he may be lying.<\/li>\n
  4. This guy disagrees with that guy<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  5. Jason Epstein still wants a high-speed machine that will make print copies of books on demand<\/a>. No, seriously. Oh, and good books will be written by demented shut-ins<\/span> “highly specialized individuals struggling at their desks in deep seclusion and not by linked communities of interest.”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I’m gonna go read something now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    To celebrate the arrival of my new Kindle (I sold my first-gen model for $270 on Amazon last week), here are a bunch of articles about e-book pricing and why publishers are scared crapless by the example of Apple and iTunes: Kassia Kroszer, who writes wonderfully about this stuff on her blog, argues that $9.99 … <\/p>\n

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