e-pulp

Still, even the Kindle Touch is €80 here in VAT:

Local shops:
Java programming book €75
Typical programming book €26
New Release fiction decent book €16
Cheaper nice fiction title €8

eBooks are often cheaper
In a year I've saved over €80 in printing costs proofing, but I use a Kindle DXG to avoid printing PDFs
over 45,000 books free on Gutenberg
I've bought a bunch of under €5 eBooks.
 
Amazon should just give it away with a two year subscription to the kindle unlimited.

I'm not sure what the life cycle is supposed to be for those tablets; but my first kindle white lasted just under three years before either the battery or the charge connector went on the blink and the replacement cost for either or both and the hassle to repair it myself were the largest argument to replace the thing. So yeah a two year contract with a free kindle and I just keep redoing that every two years so I don't have to worry about the maintenance on the tablet. That would work for me.
 
New battery about €8 and easily replaced.
Connector trickier. unless you can DIY, then new reader is cheaper.

I'd like to see stuff last 10 years. Two years is environmentally irresponsible.

(Typed on my 13 year old laptop, using 9 year old cable modem and microwave link for the broadband)

tinkerdan said:
Amazon should just give it away with a two year subscription to the kindle unlimited.
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Sky in UK been doing that with Dish Install and box here since 2001, you own it all from day one and subscription is minimum 1 year. But it's a disgusting business model. The box is crippled for non-Sky content and recording/replay disabled if you cancel subscription. Also nearly 92% of viewing time of sky subscribers is of FTA TV.

I'd hate to see a Kindle that ONLY worked with Amazon content.

The €80 is good value for what it is. the 13.8" Sony Digital paper is $800, the eInk displays don't seem to be as cheap as LCD.
 
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tinkerdan said:
You need more information
Tagged off like this it looks alarming
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Reading the financial runes can seem impenetrable but all you need to know is a reduction in sales = lost jobs in the supporting sectors. Businesses facing that level of change need a road map to take them through the choppy waters of change to a safe shore. All the evidence suggests that the small continue to go to the wall (as in my home town). Overall income is declining fairly steadily and in consequence, it's a victim of change. For a living I do pretty charts to help clarify choices. Do publishers have a conceptual framework? It's not my problem really -if they go to the wall, they go to the wall -this stuff also doubles up as research so I write about the Last Library on Earth or the Growth in the Surveillance Society, yet the shape of the future is forming as we type and I'm getting my tuppeny's worth in.
To be fair readers have little reason to be interested in financial fundamentals; all they need is product to choose from. However the point of this thread is that Publishing faces Hard Choices.
 
This seems to assume that publishers don't know what they are doing and don't employ their own pie chart-ists

Terence Park said:
Reading the financial runes can seem impenetrable but all you need to know is a reduction in sales = lost jobs in the supporting sectors. Businesses facing that level of change need a road map to take them through the choppy waters of change to a safe shore. All the evidence suggests that the small continue to go to the wall (as in my home town). Overall income is declining fairly steadily and in consequence, it's a victim of change. For a living I do pretty charts to help clarify choices. Do publishers have a conceptual framework? It's not my problem really -if they go to the wall, they go to the wall -this stuff also doubles up as research so I write about the Last Library on Earth or the Growth in the Surveillance Society, yet the shape of the future is forming as we type and I'm getting my tuppeny's worth in.
To be fair readers have little reason to be interested in financial fundamentals; all they need is product to choose from. However the point of this thread is that Publishing faces Hard Choices.
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:: I'd guess they aren't as much in the dark as that; which again suggests that there is missing information. Perhaps you forgot the meat in the pie. Pie with just the crust is so deceptive until you slice it in real life.
 
tinkerdan said:
This seems to assume that publishers don't know what they are doing and don't employ their own pie chart-ists
:: I'd guess they aren't as much in the dark as that; which again suggests that there is missing information. Perhaps you forgot the meat in the pie. Pie with just the crust is so deceptive until you slice it in real life.
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A chart is one of many tools to simplify back office number crunching. Used by accountants, marketers, business strategists, business analysts...
As far as meat in the pie is concerned, there's plenty of narrative out there suggesting turmoil in publishing (I can't post links here). Will the decline UK paperback fiction sales halt this year? The industry thinks so.
 
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