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Quote: Originally Posted by freddych If they called apple (which they did) they would have just been dismissed as a hoax (which happened). Yeah. I hear emailing Steve Jobs works a lot better these days than calling Apple's call center. I'm sur…
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Quote: Originally Posted by freddych Using a credit card that is not yours is fraud itself. Completely different analogy. Show me a law where it is illegal to run a news piece about lost property. Hmm. Try the California Uniform Trade Secrets …
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Quote: Originally Posted by freddych You have to look at it from the standpoint of Gizmodo pre-all these stories. They have a guy coming to them with an item that he claims to have found on the ground in a bar. He claims that it is the next Apple…
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Quote: Originally Posted by michaelab Oh cry me a f**king river. It's incredible how so many people like you have rushed to climb onto your moral high horse just because this affects Apple. If the Washington Post had paid $5k to get hold of some …
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Quote: Originally Posted by peter02l Two things: 1. Why are we comparing ebooks to hardcovers? Why not to paperbacks? The comparison is to hardcover new release prices because the price listed is for ebooks coming out at the same time as ne…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DJRumpy I would have to ask the question: If you were getting by just fine on $9.99 prior to the iPad rollout, then what is the excuse to claim the additional $4 bucks is needed, except to gouge the customer? If it …
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Quote: Originally Posted by majortom1981 The problem is that you can get ebooks from your local library. Why pay for a book from these publishers when you will be able to get it for free on your ioad from your local library Ps you can take…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM Like all the articles I've seen on this topic, the paperback phase pricing of ebooks remains unaddressed. I agree. And even though publishers like Macmillan have voiced their intent to do so, the history of e…
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Quote: Originally Posted by macguy90 I fully understand the marketing strategy and financial logic behind the higher premium prices for e-books, HOWEVER, I still believe it's all verging on ridiculous. I think a "sweet spot" from a CONSUMER VIEWP…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DJRumpy So no one can actually show any proof that Amazon is taking a loss, yet no one seems to question this? It's a bonifide fact. The publishers have said that they were getting the same cut they usually get rega…
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Quote: Originally Posted by freddych All these costs have nothing to do with distributing physical books. With the e-Book in play, I could see a lower cost publisher that does everything that the current publisher's do minus printing, storing, an…
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Quote: Originally Posted by trip1ex I'll echo others. There ain't any bestselling hardcovers on Amazon that are $26. They are in the $12-$16 range. And considering the reseller doesn't have to keep warehouses full of books and you don't ha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Fayt I'm sorry but I find this funny. So the selling point for a product is it's potential, but potential for what? To fill the need for... something new and cool? Apple is attempting to sell us something that we re…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gigawire In an e-world, what is the point of a publisher? Publishers still have a lot to offer creators. One just has to look at the App Store to see that. There are a lot of self-published apps and that's really wo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by gts_mac nah...he only scribbles all those zeros in his net worth figure. It amazes me to this day how people discount and devalue what the MOST SUCCESSFUL (Read: Richest) MAN IN THE WORLD thinks. They say: "Nah…
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Quote: Originally Posted by steviet02 Steve Jobs is the 'Marketing Guy' that the OP was claiming Gates to be, are you really arguing that point? No, Steve Ballmer is a 'Marketing Guy'. Steve Jobs was and is VERY involved in the designing of Ap…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Bageljoey Is it my imagination, or don't most new, hardcover books cost much more than $12-$15? I just pulled two hardcover books off my shelf and they said $27.99 and $24.99. Even if I bought them at a discount, the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by saarek have a large collection of DVD's and Blu Rays (around 400 of them) and a large collection of music on CD which I have imported into iTunes, I pay for my stuff and would happily go digital, but I refuse on princ…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TBell Seems like Apple is forcing the prices up on the consumer to the benefit of publishers and itself. There is no reason people should pay the same or more for electronic content. If you read the article, this is…
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Quote: Originally Posted by fleet Whether a book is a 100kb file or printed on paper, the real value of a book is not determined by the file size, the paper it is printed on, or how quickly you can download it. The value of a book is in the conte…