All told that's five major competitors vying for
your e-book buying dollar.
Not exact matches
They include thousands of
dollars on meals, including lavish dinners, and entertaining business guests, and even $ 4 for an
e-book one executive
bought on Amazon, «The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Summarized For Busy People.»
The entire Nook division managed to generate $ 43.5 million
dollars and this was primarily due to less people
buying e-books.
When I can
buy books by authors whose work I love, when I can find new authors who join my «must read» list for half the price of what a traditionally published
e-book costs, why should I limit my reading by paying the high
dollars?
An
e-book retailer that enters an agency agreement with a Settling Defendant under Section VI.B would be permitted to discount that Settling Defendant's individual
e-book titles by varying amounts (for example, some could be «
buy one get one free,» some could be half off, and others could have no discount), as long as the total
dollar amount spent on discounts or other promotions did not exceed in the aggregate the retailer's full commission from the Settling Defendant over a one - year period.
But for those avid readers who have to choose whether they want to spent that much money for one book or for several if they
buy older
e-books or — gasp — indie published
e-books, well, that is most of the market and they are opting for more bang for the
dollar.
(For instance, from Ken Auletta's New Yorker piece on publishing and the iPad intro: «Amazon had been
buying many
e-books from publishers for about thirteen
dollars and selling them for $ 9.99, taking a loss on each book in order to gain market share and encourage sales of its electronic reading device, the Kindle.»