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| finlay666 wrote: Typically only buy technical books which come with a pdf version on cd anyway, would be nicer to get a mobi/other ebook format too though | |
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Calibre's good for conversion.
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| Author: | pcernie [ Wed Sep 19, 2012 2:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Are ebooks getting TOO cheap? |
http://www.techradar.com/news/portable- ... up-1098287 I can't help remembering all the quotes about how nobody reads anymore... The game's changing whether authors like it or not - same as music, film, games, software, whatever. That means self-publishing (even if it is through Amazon), potentially renegotiating deals etc. I've bought quite a few books for my Kindle ONLY because they were a quid or so, and I'm an avid reader. Equally, there's stuff that's even cheaper I wouldn't touch! Anyway, what do you reckon? Bad in the long-term? |
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| Author: | l3v1ck [ Wed Sep 19, 2012 2:37 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Are ebooks getting TOO cheap? |
1) new books are barely any cheaper as ebooks. 2) if ebooks were that cheap I'd re-buy most of my paper backs. But they're not. |
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| Author: | oceanicitl [ Wed Sep 19, 2012 3:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Are ebooks getting TOO cheap? |
I have only paid around £5 for a couple of my ebooks. The rest have been free or 99p / £1.99. So book stores & publishing houses will suffer? Oh well that's progress *shrugs* |
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Wed Sep 19, 2012 5:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Are ebooks getting TOO cheap? |
While I like the idea of ebooks my one concern is buying into a format that becomes obsolete. Look at the films that were released on VHS but never on DVD. So what do you do when that format becomes obsolete. |
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| Author: | l3v1ck [ Wed Sep 19, 2012 5:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Are ebooks getting TOO cheap? |
In the case of Amazon, I'd expect them to convey them to the new format for free. They won't sell much new hardware if people can't read their old books on them. |
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| Author: | pcernie [ Wed Sep 19, 2012 11:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Are ebooks getting TOO cheap? |
There's also lots of conversion methods as I understand it... |
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| Author: | big_D [ Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:11 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Are ebooks getting TOO cheap? |
We seem to be paying on average 9.99€ for eBooks on Kindle (Lee Child, Nelle Neuhaus, Jesse Adler Olsen etc.). We don't buy the "new" books, which are around 15€ or more each. I do keep an eye out for the really cheap deals, but generally the books we like aren't usually offered that cheap. At least we both like similar books... |
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| Author: | TheFrenchun [ Thu Sep 20, 2012 6:58 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Are ebooks getting TOO cheap? |
I buy Ebooks, cheap or slightly pricier, as long as they are cheaper than the paper copy, and not by 20p only. |
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| Author: | finlay666 [ Thu Sep 20, 2012 12:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Are ebooks getting TOO cheap? |
Typically only buy technical books which come with a pdf version on cd anyway, would be nicer to get a mobi/other ebook format too though |
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| Author: | pcernie [ Thu Sep 20, 2012 12:25 pm ] | |||||||||
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Calibre's good for conversion. |
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| Author: | finlay666 [ Fri Sep 21, 2012 1:01 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Not when it's a PDF in my experience, PDFs are horrendous to convert due to the fact it's not guaranteed to be uniform in structure/layout or even content I know about Calibre as I got the GF a Kindle (one of the latest ones out this month) for her birthday the other week 
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| Author: | pcernie [ Fri Sep 21, 2012 1:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Are ebooks getting TOO cheap? |
Must have got lucky with mine then, though right enough the majority of the titles were mostly made up of text. |
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| Author: | brataccas [ Fri Sep 21, 2012 5:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Are ebooks getting TOO cheap? |
"A rough guide to breeding baby chickens"  cheapest ebook I have ever bought
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