Free Godin book in Mobipocket
Seth Godin’s marketing book Knock, Knock is now free in Mobipocket format via Ubibooks. Related: NYT on the Net and the used book market.
Update, Sept. 30, 2005: Ubibooks’ Michaël Dahan tells me: “From now, all the new books added (generally on Friday) are discounted 20 percent off during the whole week.”
September 29th, 2005 at 3:53 pm
That “Author’s Guild” is starting to give me a queasy feeling.
From the NYT article:
“”It certainly is a threat,” Paul Aiken, the executive director of the Authors Guild, said in an interview. The guild has complained in particular about Amazon.com, whose Internet site offers consumers the ability to buy used copies of a book on the same screen where it offers new copies. In many instances, used copies are made available for sale by outside parties almost as soon as a new book goes on sale.
Sales of used copies of recently published books “can affect publishing decisions, such as whether to do another printing or whether a book is doing well enough to warrant further publicity,” Mr. Aiken said.”
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Also from the article:
[The study found that] “online sales of general-interest used books are growing at a rate of more than 30 percent a year, while sales of used books at stores are almost flat.”
It seems to me that used book stores aren’t threatened, they’ve been offered a new market.