While your economic analysis might be correct for the more popular books, it is not true for many in the textbook market.
Although 33% would be a quite expensive percentage for the manufacturing costs (ie, making the paper product) - 25% is closer - the fixed costs (which are greater for ebooks) + royalties + channel overheads will easily get you up to 67%.
Ebooks require editing, proofing, indexing, professionally design and properly designed graphics too. Not one of those things costs less that $20-30 an hour.
I've been there for a year or more. Probably because I was searching out contentious but well-made posts - or non-contentious badly-made points and moderating them appropriately. Often meant I was moderating up points-of-view that I disagree with, but were informative/insightful etc.
Just wish they'd dump the line about being "More likely" to get get mod points though. I gather the likelihood of mod points goes down if the metamoderators mod down, so I'm very careful with the metamoderations.
I'm going off-topic... I'm a parent. 39 years old, my kids are 5 and 2. Also, I helped raise an ex's son, he's 22 now. I am British, was raised in Britain. Very normal childhood. Involved studying science in science classes, religious theory in religious classes. Never involved public acts of worship, because I'm not religious. All very normal. I used to go swimming with my parents. Involved seeing other people's genitalia. As it does now, when I take my boys out. Ditto the local art museum. Ditto the beach. Ditto the kids playing in the river in the summer. Oh, also, partial tits on TV? Really, quite normal. This thing is: this is very normal. I can't emphasise that enough. It's not just normal in the UK, it's normal throughout the 300million people in Europe, and it's been normal for the whole of my life. Please, someone, tell me what they're worried about happening if a child happens to see a partial breast, an antique schlong (and, you know, I think Atlas has been bathing in very cold water...), if someone is exposed to one or more (potentially) competing theories? Men have penises. Women have vaginas. We all have breasts (kind of). Religious people have faith, scientists are... scientific.
It worries me that if (as seems likely), the NYT can publish an altered photograph without indicating that it's effectively a montage - what else might have been changed?
They looked like lathes.
Personally, my children (4 and 2) use our computers all the time (they want to be like daddy). Last night, the older one told me that you make books by finding stuff on the web and printing it.
An extremely good point: the fact that this is possible at all shows a blatant disregard for usability and (probably) inept gui design. Ordering the wrong flavour candy is one thing (long story), inadvertant voting for the wrong candidate is very serious.
Interesting to note the price difference between the 256meg version with/without Linux. 10 euro.
Now, imagine something like this with MS software... more like 100?
Guess it's a really obvious point, but it makes the the decision to buy/try linux/open source into a "why not"-type decision.
...to see the MS-centric applications covered in this first (beta) release. But has anyone tested this on OO.org yet? XML being a text file and all that... but maybe the zipped structure will be a problem.
I wrote a novel in OO.org. Very pleasant experience. I use it all the time in the office and at home.
I would love to be able to plug in an xml validator. I'd pay for that. It makes me wish my programming skills were good enough to help out!
Interesting to note that until that story came out, there was at least one newlabour domain that was pointing at the conservatives site. My, how quickly the redirect was changed.
General global warming need not mean that all places get warmer. Here in northern Europe, global warming could lead to a disruption of the north Atlantic drift/Gulf stream - which could lead to a much colder local environment.
Slashdot Mirror
That's British humour
Entertaining journalist too
t s/jeremy_clarkson/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnis
better link - http://www.freeformconstruction.co.uk/
slashpot?
Amazon's easier than this: you can search and find for the page number.
backwards and forwards? You must be teflon coated!
Add the above and get it indexing an ipod and it'd be the ultimate fanboy story...
While your economic analysis might be correct for the more popular books, it is not true for many in the textbook market.
Although 33% would be a quite expensive percentage for the manufacturing costs (ie, making the paper product) - 25% is closer - the fixed costs (which are greater for ebooks) + royalties + channel overheads will easily get you up to 67%.
Ebooks require editing, proofing, indexing, professionally design and properly designed graphics too. Not one of those things costs less that $20-30 an hour.
Bookmarks synchroniser is fantastic. https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php ?application=firefox&version=1.0&os=Windows&catego ry=Bookmarks&numpg=10&id=14
I've been there for a year or more. Probably because I was searching out contentious but well-made posts - or non-contentious badly-made points and moderating them appropriately. Often meant I was moderating up points-of-view that I disagree with, but were informative/insightful etc.
Just wish they'd dump the line about being "More likely" to get get mod points though.
I gather the likelihood of mod points goes down if the metamoderators mod down, so I'm very careful with the metamoderations.
I'm going off-topic...
I'm a parent. 39 years old, my kids are 5 and 2. Also, I helped raise an ex's son, he's 22 now. I am British, was raised in Britain. Very normal childhood. Involved studying science in science classes, religious theory in religious classes. Never involved public acts of worship, because I'm not religious. All very normal. I used to go swimming with my parents. Involved seeing other people's genitalia. As it does now, when I take my boys out. Ditto the local art museum. Ditto the beach. Ditto the kids playing in the river in the summer. Oh, also, partial tits on TV? Really, quite normal.
This thing is: this is very normal. I can't emphasise that enough. It's not just normal in the UK, it's normal throughout the 300million people in Europe, and it's been normal for the whole of my life.
Please, someone, tell me what they're worried about happening if a child happens to see a partial breast, an antique schlong (and, you know, I think Atlas has been bathing in very cold water...), if someone is exposed to one or more (potentially) competing theories?
Men have penises. Women have vaginas. We all have breasts (kind of). Religious people have faith, scientists are... scientific.
It worries me that if (as seems likely), the NYT can publish an altered photograph without indicating that it's effectively a montage - what else might have been changed?
Hey, that's the first time a slashdot comment has made me dribble!
They looked like lathes.
Personally, my children (4 and 2) use our computers all the time (they want to be like daddy). Last night, the older one told me that you make books by finding stuff on the web and printing it.
The Nescafe version was about as a significant to coffee as packet "cappucino" - what's in that stuff? Sodium bicarb? You can hear it fizz!
Right now the next model up (at $548) includes * wifi * dvd-rom * winxp - http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product _id=3163026
...using technologies that my main employers won't use - a bit of money and a better cv
An extremely good point: the fact that this is possible at all shows a blatant disregard for usability and (probably) inept gui design. Ordering the wrong flavour candy is one thing (long story), inadvertant voting for the wrong candidate is very serious.
Interesting to note the price difference between the 256meg version with/without Linux. 10 euro. Now, imagine something like this with MS software... more like 100? Guess it's a really obvious point, but it makes the the decision to buy/try linux/open source into a "why not"-type decision.
...to see the MS-centric applications covered in this first (beta) release. But has anyone tested this on OO.org yet? XML being a text file and all that... but maybe the zipped structure will be a problem.
I wrote a novel in OO.org. Very pleasant experience. I use it all the time in the office and at home.
I would love to be able to plug in an xml validator. I'd pay for that. It makes me wish my programming skills were good enough to help out!
Also it looks like the world's ugliest cell phone.
Interesting to note that until that story came out, there was at least one newlabour domain that was pointing at the conservatives site. My, how quickly the redirect was changed.
General global warming need not mean that all places get warmer. Here in northern Europe, global warming could lead to a disruption of the north Atlantic drift/Gulf stream - which could lead to a much colder local environment.
Release a torrent.