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General Forum - Kindle is it worth it? - Page 1
Elite
My other half would like Death Comes to Pemberley by P D James in her stocking.
I checked Amazon
Hardback book is £ 8.54
Kindle edition £7.69
The value of hard back after it has been read will be, I guess, about a fiver.
I think the kindle edition, being non-tranferrable, is nil.
So, the book is only £0.85p more to buy and has a significant resale value.
Is this just sheer greed?
Elite Donator
Well, 20% of that is VAT for a start (so £6.40 + VAT), but yes it is sheer greed (usually by the publishers). The marginal cost of selling another ebook is almost zero, yet they still keep the price high.
I think they're tracing the same route as the music industry faced when first selling digital downloads, they're worried about devaluing their product and so price it high - forcing a lot of people to think twice about buying it.
However, as Stephen Leather's little test last Christmas showed, you can sell a hell of a load of books if you price them right (in the UK market at least), his experiment demonstrated that the US market wasn't nearly as price sensitive, but that they were led by the overall popularity (i.e. Oprah's reading list) of the books.
I believe that for brand new books (those just released as hardbacks) that around £4.99 is a reasonable price point for the equivalent digital edition. Once it hits paperback, then £2.99 or less.
Of course there are alternatives like borrowing ebooks from the library, or (ahem) getting a friend to buy one from an online seller and rip off the DRM to share it with his closest friends.
Elite
I love my Kindle and would love it even more if I could get Captain Corelli's Mandolin for it! Arrrrgh! Anyone?! 
Elite Donator
Have you lost all your IT skills r8sso? 
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Captain-Corellis-Mandolin-Classics-ebook/dp/B005R20YAC/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1320264035&sr=1-2&tag=myrev09-21
Elite
You mean you can buy books for the Kindle too?! 
I'll wait for an 'online friend' to buy it and rip off the DRM for me!
Elite Donator
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r8sso. says...
I'll wait for an 'online friend' to buy it and rip off the DRM for me!
Ha! (Just checked my library, not available there).
Elite
My library consists of a good few thousand! I've even started looking for a non mobi copy so I can just convert it myself but no luck. I might drop Ogs a message as he's always good for stuff like this!
Elite Donator
searches...
brb
no idea 
it's a real demonoid to find
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This item was edited on Wednesday, 2nd November 2011, 22:16
Elite
It's funny you mentioned Demonoid I've found a .pdf copy and I've spent an hour editing the text in word and removing excess line breaks! I'm just about to use Calibre for the first time now for the conversion...
Thanks for trying though Chris.
Miles - if you want a copy for your library let me know!
Elite
Funny this came up, just discovered one in the safe at work, seemingly been there for over a year, bulky compared to current models and from all accounts american left it there....is it worth claiming and putting some money in the poppy jar? or are the older ones now obselete?
