The electronic version might be cheaper, but it will be cheaper by 5%, or some trivial amount like that, just like eBooks. iPad versions of text books won't "cost so much less."
But then again, speaking of Kindle, it itself became the Apple of eInk devices, where you'd figure the Kindle was the only one available as no other manufacturers ever get mentioned. Even back in the day when it was only Amazon and Sony, and maybe some smaller manufacturers, Sony didn't exist in most article authors' world, even though they had a superior reader.
But that's the thing people forget. You don't own the eBook you buy. You buy what's effectively a license. You can't lend it (the 2 week lending thing is a joke), you can't resell it, you can't donate it to a library or thrift store. If you have a problem with that, then stick with paper books.
Meh, calibre is fine, but it's so bloated, and resource hungry, and every week, there is a new version that requires you downloading the whole frigging 25-30mb binary. I try to avoid it, personally.
So you'd be against, for example, a vehicle recall? After all, that's the vehicle you bought. The dealing between you and the car company is over. And I'm sure you'd mention the warranty, but that likely only covers things that break. You bought that car with that faulty battery from the getgo. That's the vehicle you inspected and bought. Your problem now, no backsies.
Perhaps you should consider the fact that with the digital sales of books, mistakes are much more easily made. With printed books, it is a more arduous process and therefore likely harder for a simple mistake to take place, like poor editing, scanning, and spelling that you find in ebooks, and possibly like incorrectly uploading a 300kb ebook to the online store, whereas making the physical counterpart would involve a lot more bureaucracy and time between making the decision and the book showing up on shelves.
I'd like to see the argument you put up when a stolen car you buy gets taken away from you. Two consenting adults, right?
As said already, this was ONE frigging book in the existence of their ebook store, and people got full refunds to purchase the very same book, word from word, from a source that was legally able to sell it.
You decry the apologists. But quite the contrary, I think you just want to find fault in anything a "big evil corporation" does.
Seattle and Oakland seem to indicate that they are!
And on a more serious note, I think Giuliani or Kelly made trips out west to show other police organizations some of their tactics (don't have the article link handy), so it seems that the NYPD is in fact a model to some.
Or you still have a slight amount of reverence for a CNet site and might click through the prompts, trusting the source. Not cool to have such a trick played on you.
bleah, even autors' sites can be traps. Take imgburn for example. Might not be the case right now, but the last time I was downloading, there were no less than 3 download links in various banners to unrelated crapware, some of it going through doubleclick. Windows software has become a complete cesspool.
download.com started their crapware bundling a few months ago. Yesterday when I wanted to look up DVR access software, I almost pulled up their side, but then I didn't. Cool story, I know. But here's hoping that more people become aware and start avoiding the site like the plague.
You didn't lose money. You exchanged it. Now, you can once again get to work to make more money. Same way you exchange it for a book so that you enrich your mind, possibly in a professional manner, where the knowledge will mean a higher salary or better financial rewards.
You also have all the man hours figuring out how many copies of a book to sent to a specific store.
And when they aren't able to sell all, the publisher, as far as I know anyway, often repurchases those books, has them shipped back, and has to deal with them.
I'm sure they pay someone good money to figure out how many books to print per run, where to ship, what kind of an agreement to sign with a retailer, etc. With 500k ePubs, all of that is gone.
> Every vote for 99 cent ebooks is a vote for less editing, no proofreading, amateurish layout, and generally even lower quality. And quality has suffered quite a lot in the last few decades as it is.
That's already the case with $15 ebooks and $5 emagazines.
Probably not the Amazon one (Fire). No SD card slots, 6GB of usable disk space. The B&N Tablet has twice the space and card slots, and isn't heavily modified to only access their media store.
But yeah, remains to be seen whether a 7" screen and a 1GHz CPU are enough for most people. I'm honestly surprised that most tablet makers thought they could charge the same money as Apple. Then when they dumped their remaining stock for $99 and it was all snapped up, they actually thought they could get back into it. Honestly? *facepalm*
If you don't want private stuff to be exposed then don't post it. It's that simple. When you upload/post stuff, you have no control over it. But you can still use Facebook to stay in touch.
But many Android phones are a lot cheaper than the iPhone. With the tablets, they priced them the same as the iPad, removing the last remaining reason for getting a non-Apple tablet. But with the advent of $200 7" tablets like B&N Tablet, that might change. B&N and Amazon might stay behind their product for a longer while.
This is why people aren't as willing to buy from companies like Dell as opposed to Apple. A few quarters of less than stellar sales and they bail on the whole market and you're left with an unsupported device. Happened with the Zune, HP's tablet, some very good mp3 players of yore. And to add insult to injury, these companies expect to be able to charge the same for their devices as Apple does.
Gee whiz, I wonder why people choose an iPad where for exactly the same money they could have had an Android wanna-be from a company not completely behind their own product.
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No one will be using eInk for text books. Will never happen. And I've owned a few Sony readers for the past 4 years.
* Something that can screw up the kid's back for life.
Have you seen the size of these kids' backpacks? Not saying that the iPad is the best answer, but at least it would lighten those loads.
The electronic version might be cheaper, but it will be cheaper by 5%, or some trivial amount like that, just like eBooks. iPad versions of text books won't "cost so much less."
But then again, speaking of Kindle, it itself became the Apple of eInk devices, where you'd figure the Kindle was the only one available as no other manufacturers ever get mentioned. Even back in the day when it was only Amazon and Sony, and maybe some smaller manufacturers, Sony didn't exist in most article authors' world, even though they had a superior reader.
But that's the thing people forget. You don't own the eBook you buy. You buy what's effectively a license. You can't lend it (the 2 week lending thing is a joke), you can't resell it, you can't donate it to a library or thrift store. If you have a problem with that, then stick with paper books.
So it can read ePubs, as long as you convert them to Amazon's format? That's not quite reading ePubs.
Meh, calibre is fine, but it's so bloated, and resource hungry, and every week, there is a new version that requires you downloading the whole frigging 25-30mb binary. I try to avoid it, personally.
So you'd be against, for example, a vehicle recall? After all, that's the vehicle you bought. The dealing between you and the car company is over. And I'm sure you'd mention the warranty, but that likely only covers things that break. You bought that car with that faulty battery from the getgo. That's the vehicle you inspected and bought. Your problem now, no backsies.
Perhaps you should consider the fact that with the digital sales of books, mistakes are much more easily made. With printed books, it is a more arduous process and therefore likely harder for a simple mistake to take place, like poor editing, scanning, and spelling that you find in ebooks, and possibly like incorrectly uploading a 300kb ebook to the online store, whereas making the physical counterpart would involve a lot more bureaucracy and time between making the decision and the book showing up on shelves.
I'd like to see the argument you put up when a stolen car you buy gets taken away from you. Two consenting adults, right?
As said already, this was ONE frigging book in the existence of their ebook store, and people got full refunds to purchase the very same book, word from word, from a source that was legally able to sell it.
You decry the apologists. But quite the contrary, I think you just want to find fault in anything a "big evil corporation" does.
Come on, you can't deny a person's right to scream outrage and cite "1984". That's what all the cool kids do these days, after all.
Seattle and Oakland seem to indicate that they are!
And on a more serious note, I think Giuliani or Kelly made trips out west to show other police organizations some of their tactics (don't have the article link handy), so it seems that the NYPD is in fact a model to some.
Or you still have a slight amount of reverence for a CNet site and might click through the prompts, trusting the source. Not cool to have such a trick played on you.
bleah, even autors' sites can be traps. Take imgburn for example. Might not be the case right now, but the last time I was downloading, there were no less than 3 download links in various banners to unrelated crapware, some of it going through doubleclick. Windows software has become a complete cesspool.
download.com started their crapware bundling a few months ago. Yesterday when I wanted to look up DVR access software, I almost pulled up their side, but then I didn't. Cool story, I know. But here's hoping that more people become aware and start avoiding the site like the plague.
Sadly, based on everything that I've read about Australia recently, it would be the first country to see such practices be adopted.
Well, if the paper book was not originally created on a computer, then it would take someone's time to digitize it and format it correctly.
Plenty of people complaining about ebook prices, especially as compared to physical books.
You didn't lose money. You exchanged it. Now, you can once again get to work to make more money. Same way you exchange it for a book so that you enrich your mind, possibly in a professional manner, where the knowledge will mean a higher salary or better financial rewards.
You also have all the man hours figuring out how many copies of a book to sent to a specific store.
And when they aren't able to sell all, the publisher, as far as I know anyway, often repurchases those books, has them shipped back, and has to deal with them.
I'm sure they pay someone good money to figure out how many books to print per run, where to ship, what kind of an agreement to sign with a retailer, etc. With 500k ePubs, all of that is gone.
> Every vote for 99 cent ebooks is a vote for less editing, no proofreading, amateurish layout, and generally even lower quality. And quality has suffered quite a lot in the last few decades as it is.
That's already the case with $15 ebooks and $5 emagazines.
Probably not the Amazon one (Fire). No SD card slots, 6GB of usable disk space. The B&N Tablet has twice the space and card slots, and isn't heavily modified to only access their media store.
But yeah, remains to be seen whether a 7" screen and a 1GHz CPU are enough for most people. I'm honestly surprised that most tablet makers thought they could charge the same money as Apple. Then when they dumped their remaining stock for $99 and it was all snapped up, they actually thought they could get back into it. Honestly? *facepalm*
If you don't want private stuff to be exposed then don't post it. It's that simple. When you upload/post stuff, you have no control over it. But you can still use Facebook to stay in touch.
But many Android phones are a lot cheaper than the iPhone. With the tablets, they priced them the same as the iPad, removing the last remaining reason for getting a non-Apple tablet. But with the advent of $200 7" tablets like B&N Tablet, that might change. B&N and Amazon might stay behind their product for a longer while.
This is why people aren't as willing to buy from companies like Dell as opposed to Apple. A few quarters of less than stellar sales and they bail on the whole market and you're left with an unsupported device. Happened with the Zune, HP's tablet, some very good mp3 players of yore. And to add insult to injury, these companies expect to be able to charge the same for their devices as Apple does.
Gee whiz, I wonder why people choose an iPad where for exactly the same money they could have had an Android wanna-be from a company not completely behind their own product.