Comments on: The beginning of the end of the Kindle? http://www.RexBlog.com/2009/06/20/19585?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-kindle Rex Hammock's Blog Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Publishing, Reading and Book-Buying In The New World « Just Another Pretty Farce http://www.RexBlog.com/2009/06/20/19585/comment-page-1#comment-339569 Publishing, Reading and Book-Buying In The New World « Just Another Pretty Farce Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:05:05 +0000 http://www.RexBlog.com/2009/06/20/19585#comment-339569 [...] means that I’ve spent more time than is healthy pondering the various thoughts addressed by Rex Hammock in this piece on the changing face of Kindle pricing and what that could mean for the fu... Pricing and digital-rights-management rarely benefit the creator or the “consumer” — they [...] [...] means that I’ve spent more time than is healthy pondering the various thoughts addressed by Rex Hammock in this piece on the changing face of Kindle pricing and what that could mean for the fu… Pricing and digital-rights-management rarely benefit the creator or the “consumer” — they [...]

]]> By: Deborah Robson http://www.RexBlog.com/2009/06/20/19585/comment-page-1#comment-339343 Deborah Robson Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:32:25 +0000 http://www.RexBlog.com/2009/06/20/19585#comment-339343 I know of one very small publisher that would be happy to drop the pricing on electronic-delivery copies *if* the pricing and discount constraints imposed by the distribution channels (including the producers of the electronic reading tools) would permit this flexibility. This is not, of course, a large publisher: they operate in a whole different realm. This publisher has standard national distribution, which means the books are available everywhere. The arrangement (which is archaic) also places a near stranglehold on pricing, and an amazingly small amount of the retail price (through whatever medium) gets back to publisher and author. I know of one very small publisher that would be happy to drop the pricing on electronic-delivery copies *if* the pricing and discount constraints imposed by the distribution channels (including the producers of the electronic reading tools) would permit this flexibility.

This is not, of course, a large publisher: they operate in a whole different realm. This publisher has standard national distribution, which means the books are available everywhere. The arrangement (which is archaic) also places a near stranglehold on pricing, and an amazingly small amount of the retail price (through whatever medium) gets back to publisher and author.

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