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Amazon has dedicated e-book hardware and a massive bookstore. Apple has excellent support on iOS with a built-in store. Before I could change my mind, I sent a tweet asking if anyone wanted to buy my Kindle. I told myself that if I sold it that night, I would take the plunge into Apple Books. One thing I quickly noticed was that Apple Books has audiobooks built right into the app. With Kindle on iOS, you generally use the Audible app. I picked up The Rise of Skywalker as an audiobook for the same price as the e-book version.
Overall, the interface for everything in Apple Books is first class. Reading books is delightful, and the audiobook player is also well done. You can sync audiobooks with Apple Watch as well. May 30, AM. Like the author Mark Kendrick stated,his profits sky rocketed when he formated his books for "readers" and priced them much lower. Doing away with the publishers, means less cost to the consumer and increased profit for the writer.
Jan 2, PM in response to m In response to m The macworld article makes sense. But the most of the books in the apple ibooks are overpriced. Then I thought I have ibooks on my iphone lets see if they have the book cause I don't want to download the kindle app on my iphone if I don't need to.
So I'm sticking with Kindle from now on they are better priced and there selection is massive. I like Apple but I definitely don't love them. My next upgrade I might even switch to Android if the iphone 5 doesn't wow me. Jan 2, PM. Apr 9, AM in response to careyfrommesquite In response to careyfrommesquite.
Apr 9, AM. Apr 25, AM. One thing the article didn't mention was longevity which is something that's an issue where libraries and publshers are having issues. An e-book can be read by millions of readers without wearing out. A paper copy needs replacing after a certain number of readers have used it.
A publisher can rely upon having repeat sales of a paper copy, but in theory will only sell an electronic copy once. Apr 13, PM in response to m In response to m The Amazon Kindle, which was introduced in , effectively mainstreamed ebooks. They appeared poised to disrupt the publishing industry on a fundamental level. Analysts confidently predicted that millennials would embrace ebooks with open arms and abandon print books, that ebook sales would keep rising to take up more and more market share, that the price of ebooks would continue to fall, and that publishing would be forever changed.
Instead, at the other end of the decade, ebook sales seem to have stabilized at around 20 percent of total book sales, with print sales making up the remaining 80 percent. The people who are actually buying ebooks? Mostly boomers. They can make the font bigger. They also cost more than everyone predicted they would — and consistently, they cost more than their print equivalents. So what happened? How did the apparently inevitable ebook revolution fail to come to pass?
The Department of Justice accused Apple and the publishers of colluding to fix ebook prices against Amazon, and although the DOJ won its case in court, the pricing model that Apple and the publishers created together would continue to dominate the industry, creating unintended ripple effects. The case of US v. Apple encapsulates the dysfunction of the last decade of publishing.
What happened to the ebook in the s is the story of the contraction of American publishing. But for Amazon, this price point was an apparent no-brainer. The first generation Kindle was expensive, and value conscious customers needed some incentive to buy into it.
And while this point is often glossed over, Amazon was actually following a precedent set by publishers in its pricing model. In her opinion for US v. But by , publishers had changed their minds.
Printing and binding and shipping — the costs that ebooks eliminated — accounted for only two dollars of the cost of a hardcover, publishers argued. Before we delve further into the weeds here, a quick primer on how book prices are set.
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