mattclary":1icpsrmz said:
I have an e-reader, and make use of Bittorrent. I just look at isohunt.com as the new public library. When content producers go back to respecting a reasonable length of copyright, I will also respect it.
Absolutely, I love my kindle so much, but there is no way I'm paying $15 for an ebook, which is what most new ones are priced at. I can buy nearly any paperback at our local used book store for less than $5. So that's my threshold, If they price them around half the price of paperbacks, I'll be buying 2 or 3 books a week for life. But at the present prices, I have literally only ever bought one ebook from Amazon and that was one of my favorite authors on sale for $4.
The should study the Steam model. I don't remember the specific numbers right now, but they found the more they reduced prices, the more they sold, to the point where it was something crazy like, if they reduced prices to 25% they sold 1500% more copies, thereby making much, much more money. If I could buy older novels, and series for 1 or 2 buck a pop, I'd be buying hundreds of books a year of the titles that are probably not selling much anymore. Seems like that would be a win for everyone. For example, one of my favorite authors wrote a book in 1974 that Amazons kindle edition sells for $8. That's a crazy price for a book that's almost 40 years old.
