Comments on: ‘Amazon’s Kindle: Very cool, really easy,’ says Publishers Weekly http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/11/30/amazons-kindle-very-cool-really-easy-says-publishers-weekly/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:49:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Mike Cane http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/11/30/amazons-kindle-very-cool-really-easy-says-publishers-weekly/#comment-643248 Mike Cane Sat, 01 Dec 2007 17:02:56 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/11/30/amazons-kindle-very-cool-really-easy-says-publishers-weekly/#comment-643248 >>>Naturally, since our books are included in the Kindle list, I believe they have a wonderful selection. What's the overlap between yours and Sony Connect? >>>Naturally, since our books are included in the Kindle list, I believe they have a wonderful selection.

What’s the overlap between yours and Sony Connect?

]]> By: Rob Preece http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/11/30/amazons-kindle-very-cool-really-easy-says-publishers-weekly/#comment-642750 Rob Preece Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:03:11 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/11/30/amazons-kindle-very-cool-really-easy-says-publishers-weekly/#comment-642750 I can only speak for titles published by BooksForABuck.com, my company. Amazon is offering these at a significant discount to my list price (regular readers know that BooksForABuck.com sets aggressive list prices because we believe in affordable eBooks). Amazon is taking a smaller margin on these books and, I think, on most of its Kindle books. I think this is a well thought out way to jump-start sales of this device. Whether Kindle eBooks stay low-priced is another question. Certainly Amazon's costs to inventory, ship, worry about returns, buy warehouses, etc. for eBooks is dramatically lower than for paper books and it does make sense that they'd be willing to accept slightly lower margins for this business than they do on their more labor-intense businesses. Naturally, since our books are included in the Kindle list, I believe they have a wonderful selection. Rob Preece Publisher, www.BooksForABuck.com I can only speak for titles published by BooksForABuck.com, my company. Amazon is offering these at a significant discount to my list price (regular readers know that BooksForABuck.com sets aggressive list prices because we believe in affordable eBooks). Amazon is taking a smaller margin on these books and, I think, on most of its Kindle books. I think this is a well thought out way to jump-start sales of this device. Whether Kindle eBooks stay low-priced is another question. Certainly Amazon’s costs to inventory, ship, worry about returns, buy warehouses, etc. for eBooks is dramatically lower than for paper books and it does make sense that they’d be willing to accept slightly lower margins for this business than they do on their more labor-intense businesses.

Naturally, since our books are included in the Kindle list, I believe they have a wonderful selection.

Rob Preece
Publisher, http://www.BooksForABuck.com

]]> By: Mike Cane http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/11/30/amazons-kindle-very-cool-really-easy-says-publishers-weekly/#comment-642371 Mike Cane Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:28:15 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/11/30/amazons-kindle-very-cool-really-easy-says-publishers-weekly/#comment-642371 >>>title selection, pricing Anyone want to waste a week or so of their life *really* combing through the amazon Kindle catalog? I really have deep doubts that their *affordable* selection of titles is this huge monster the PR has made it out to be. I keep wondering how many of that "selection" have prices like this: http://www.amazon.com/Growth-Strategies-for-Software-Companies/dp/B000OT7TTM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text&qid=1196454429&sr=1-1 (The first title you see in the Kindle bookstore when sorting by Price Highest-Lowest.) >>>title selection, pricing

Anyone want to waste a week or so of their life *really* combing through the amazon Kindle catalog? I really have deep doubts that their *affordable* selection of titles is this huge monster the PR has made it out to be.

I keep wondering how many of that “selection” have prices like this:

http://www.amazon.com/Growth-Strategies-for-Software-Companies/dp/B000OT7TTM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text&qid=1196454429&sr=1-1

(The first title you see in the Kindle bookstore when sorting by Price Highest-Lowest.)

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