What price ebooks?
I got a Kindle 1 (the original Kindle) early in November of 2008. Since then I have read approximately 50 books and dozens of short stories on it or its successor, my Kindle 2. I have not read any print books and very few magazines since I got a Kindle. I just don't want to go back to carrying around a chunk of paper, remembering where I put the
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Though I resent paying more, or even quite as much as the hardcover for the ebook, I don't mind paying a premium when only the hardcover is out. But it doesn't matter what the prices are at this point, delaying the ebook is only delaying the publisher getting my money.
Really, and I've said this many times before, if the publishers want to keep selling hardcovers, they should give away the ebook WITH the hard-cover. That package I might pay current hardcover prices for.
I can see the publisher screaming, "but that means we're giving the ebook away for free!" No, idiots. The book I'm holding and the book I'm reading is the same book. You're selling a hardcover you wouldn't have otherwise sold.
Ah, but now they're saying, "but you could just read the ebook and give the hardcover to your mom or sell it on eBay!" No, idiots, but even if I do, it makes no difference. Even without the ebook, I could slap this hardcover on eBay and read it before the auction ends. So what's your point? Deal.
Don't plan to put out an ebook at all? Well, heck, sorry you won't be getting my money. Plenty of other good ebooks out there right now. Maybe next time.
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