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Murdoch Says E-Book Prices Will Kill Paper Books

Posted by timothy on from the moving-companies-are-probably-unhappy-too dept.

hrimhari writes "The settlement between Amazon and Macmillian got the attention of a known dinosaur. Consistent to his views, Mr. Murdoch wants to defend his book editors by killing the cheaper solution. '"We don't like the Amazon model of selling everything at $9.99," Murdoch said. "They pay us the wholesale price of $14 or whatever we charge," he said. "But I think it really devalues books, and it hurts all the retailers of the hardcover books.'"

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  1. Re:iPad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    When the iPad was announced, I thought to myself - there isn't really a use for that.

    Later, it occurred to me - if you subscribe to magazines and newspapers, and read them at home a lot - it is actually quite attractive, in an expensive apple solution way... maybe not for me, but for some people, who enjoy those types of publications at home - sure.

    I agree, except that the iPad is DRMed up the wazoo.

    Hopefully Acer or Asus will come up with a similar Linux or even Windows tablet.

  2. Re:"Murdoch Wants" by pcolaman · · Score: -1, Troll

    LOL at random idiot #105,908 who thinks that Fox is biased and yet I'm sure that CBS, CNN, and MSNBC are somehow great news organizations. You have to take anything you hear or see on the News with a grain of salt, no matter who you get it from. They are all businesses first and thus first they are going to care about their bottom line before they care about the actual news. Let me guess, registered Democrat?

  3. Re:"Murdoch Wants" by pcolaman · · Score: -1, Troll

    You got my UID wrong.

    That would imply that everyone on /. is an idiot. You are just one of the majority.

    You think it isn't?

    If you would learn reading comprehension 101, you'd have realized that I was implying that they were no less biased than the other news corporations, not that they were not biased.

    Well, then you're not paying attention to my comment; please see my sig. CBS, CNN, and MSNBC are also all owned by one of these megacorporations.

    Paid attention to your comment just fine. You specifically said Fox. What makes them any worse than any of the other news corporations. At least you know where they stand. Some are much worse, such as MSNBC who are all over the place. At least Fox is very consistent in their bias and thus are easy to filter.

    Strike four, you must not be playing baseball or you'd already have been out. I'm a registered member of the Scorched Earth Party.

    Yours shall, I hope, be the only troll comment to which I reply, mostly because you're logged in, and most of the others are anonymous cowards. Plus, yours seemed like the most fun to poop on.

    Typical non-committal answer that could well be attributed to a liberal who is embarrassed by the people representing them in Congress. Or perhaps you are being honest, and are hoping for a cause that won't happen anytime soon. Either way, your naivety is cute.

    And for the record, at least I have the balls to post under my UID (never post AC). Your sig is hilarious, because it's obviously set up as an obvious counter to any argument you disagree with. You disagree with me, hence, I must have not read your comment and kthxbye must indicate that thus you seem to have won the argument before it even started. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that this is a common thing you refer back to in any of your rebuttal posts.

    I guess the appropriate ending would be...kthxbye