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• Sean Eric Fagan commented on CMAP #9: Ebooks
  Amazon.com is/was selling them at a loss. (At least some of them, quite likely many of them, unlikely to be all of them but I can't rule it out.)...
• Sean Eric Fagan commented on CMAP #9: Ebooks
  iBooks will be on the iPhone eventually, and you can use it to read Webscription books. (I have the same bundle, as well as, hrm, another 60 or 70 books from them, I think.) I don't know if it'll be any better than Stanza on the iPhone, though....
• errolwi commented on CMAP #9: Ebooks
  E-books are genuinely less valuable. ...You can't do any of these things with e-books This isn't quite my view. I simply won't buy an ebook that I can't extract from its DRM. Where I am that isn't illegeal in itself, but I'm not sure if I'm protected from 'theft' due to breaking the supposed contract with the e-retailer. An ebook that I can crack typically has a value to me between US/UK e-retail plus forex fees and NZ pbook retail. The Aussie bookstores are about to launch stores with pricing to compete with Amazon (for AU delivery), they say. Remembering...
• Charlie Stross commented on CMAP #9: Ebooks
  Mikael, I've covered these issues extensively and in depth in a series of postings titled "Common Misconceptions About Publishing", which you will find here....
• Charlie Stross commented on CMAP #9: Ebooks
  That's already happened -- the evidence is visible on any POD site, from PublishAmerica to Lulu and everything in-between. There are useful and interesting works on a variety of subjects of interest only to a tiny, micro-focussed audience too small to attract a major publisher. And there are also oceans of slush, published because it's now easy for an author who doesn't want to hear the message that they're not ready for prime-time yet to put their book on sale at their own expense. The readers, as usual, are voting with their wallets ... for the commercial product, for the...