Not exact matches
Not true at all, you can buy the
amazon books which usually have the best
price, but if you want to buy them somewhere else (ibooks or even kobostore) or get them for free on project gutenberg or any other source all you have to do is to load them on an app called calibre (available for mac, linux and windows) which will automatically convert the books into the more appropriate format and send them by email to
amazon cloud which will make them appear almost imediatly in your
kindle.
The Nexus if for android purists and people who want the best specs for the
price, while the
amazon kindle fire HD is for people who want to jump right into a cradled ecosystem.
The only foreseeable advantage I see, other than making us nuts (which while fun, probably doesn't help
amazon's bottom dollar), is to grow more home - grown
kindle authors and to have more people buy into Author Central, thereby, in the end, making for lower ebook
prices (which equals more units sold) and no traditional publisher middle man.
Also publishers do not want to get their customers hooked up to
amazon's
kindle or any other publishing platform that can dictate
prices and conditions of e-book sales.
Tagged with
amazon, apple, Baen, book publishers, David Weber, e-books, hugh howey, John Ringo, kazaa,
kindle, liaden, Napster,
price fixing,
pricing, wool
-LSB-...] Jay Lake just encountered the group of
amazon users that are boycotting
kindle titles
priced over $ 9.99 -LSB-...]
My understanding about the
kindle pricing is that
amazon actually takes a hit to mark certain
kindle books (that are otherwise still in hardcover) down to 9.99 as marketing for the
kindle.
To purchase books at the
kindle price on
amazon i have to have a
kindle paperwhite or
kindle instead of a fire tablet?
So I don't think that
kindle will be a winner takes all if nook colour is lowering its
price to undercut
amazon.
We buy from baen and sourcebooks but the vast majority of purchases come from the US
kindle store (because in the Aussie one
amazon is maintaining the status quo
pricing) I would like options but the publishing industry failed to pay attention to the lessons that the music and film industry offered.