{"id":1989,"date":"2009-05-18T07:40:09","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T12:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2009-05-18T08:03:04","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T13:03:04","slug":"doomsday-for-the-outmoded-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1989","title":{"rendered":"Doomsday for the Outmoded Argument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article <a title=\"How much for that eBook?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/17\/weekinreview\/17rich.html?_r=1&amp;ref=books\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a> about the ongoing Kindle Readers&#8217; <strong>$9.99<\/strong> Amazon Boycott. Amazon misled Kindle first-adopters by saying that New eBook Releases would be priced at <strong>$9.99<\/strong>. Well, that didn&#8217;t last long. Readers revolted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Caution: THE FOLLOWING IS SNAKE OIL MEANT TO FRIGHTEN CONSUMERS INTO SUBMISSION.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Quote from the article: &#8220;How Much Should an E-Book Cost?&#8221; by Motoko Rich, New York Times, May 16, 2009<br \/>\n&#8216;Publishers and authors say it is much more complicated than the cost of paper and shipping. The lower e-book price \u00e2\u20ac\u0153is not sustainable,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Mr. Baldacci, [a writer] whose novels regularly rise to the top of hardcover best seller lists. If readers insist on cut-rate electronic books, he said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unfortunately there won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be anyone selling it anymore because you just can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make any money.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Never trust a writer who says things like that. Writers rarely make any money, and they continue writing anyway. Readers love reading so there will always be a demand for books and eBooks. Where there is a demand, there will be a supply. Baldacci&#8217;s statement is alarmist balderdash. The truth is <em><strong>publishers will have to provide informed consumers with fairly priced products<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Never trust a newspaper that inked a distribution deal with the company in question, <strong>Amazon<\/strong>. Never believe a newspaper that is about to make the shift to digital by offering a low-priced Kindle to subscribers. Read that <a title=\"Kindle and the New York Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/henry-blodget-new-york-times-to-offer-get-a-kindle-subscription-deals-2009-5\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The whole story sounds like collusion by two big companies, <em>yah<\/em>? They&#8217;re ganging up on the consumer to force high-prices down our throats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amateur Hour on Planet Earth goes into overtime!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article here about the ongoing Kindle Readers&#8217; $9.99 Amazon Boycott. Amazon misled Kindle first-adopters by saying that New eBook Releases would be priced at $9.99. Well, that didn&#8217;t last long. Readers revolted. Caution: THE FOLLOWING IS SNAKE OIL MEANT TO FRIGHTEN CONSUMERS INTO SUBMISSION. Quote from the article: &#8220;How Much Should an E-Book &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1989\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1993,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions\/1993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}