tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post1930038380293259221..comments2024-03-18T22:39:50.137-07:00Comments on A Kindle World blog: Free Kindle books, more info. Are new e-book royalties cheating authors?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-8948105212905814342011-02-28T20:27:03.193-08:002011-02-28T20:27:03.193-08:00I think this is happening in the ebook market prec...I think this is happening in the ebook market precisely because it did not happen in the digital music market ... the music market initially attempted to duplicate the physical market, and only after failing spectacularly in several ways did they manage to find better outlets for providing digital music to customers. By then, more than a few people had given up on finding a reasonable method of buying digital music.<br /><br />Unfortunately, publishers seem to be unaware of "history". I suppose it's not exactly the same situation, though. It would be a more accurate analogy if the first commercially-available mp3s were created not from master recordings but by an intern with a fancy tape recorder sitting in on studio sessions. (Unless I'm the only person buying ebook after ebook that's simply the work of an OCR tool ...)zlionsfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02966540737106797756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-17808808316284472972011-02-28T10:02:49.115-08:002011-02-28T10:02:49.115-08:00http://www.ereaderiq.com/ lets you search a price ...http://www.ereaderiq.com/ lets you search a price range (as well as filter by a number of other criteria). Seems more accurate and flexible than tagging, at least for the criteria it lets you filter on.Tom Semplehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05127272649086914117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-74551111353669031502011-02-27T13:06:42.869-08:002011-02-27T13:06:42.869-08:00Definitely so, Stephen!Definitely so, Stephen!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05109282436243758435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-872447660964013545.post-27840999159423192722011-02-27T11:59:00.231-08:002011-02-27T11:59:00.231-08:00On the UK Kindle bestseller list, 34 of the top 40...On the UK Kindle bestseller list, 34 of the top 40 paid books are under £3, the majority self-published.<br /><br />Does that not show a key part of the threat to the publishers is not that Amazon gains direct power over them through market dominance, but rather makes them redundant or at least much weaker because (a) Amazon allows authors to bypass publishers, and (b) Amazon allows readers to find new content at prices considerably lower than those charged by the mainstream publishers.<br /><br />It's interesting that this appears to be happening early on in the development of the ebook marketplace in a way in which it didn't in the digital music marketplace.Stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04165803719134905047noreply@blogger.com