Comments on: Bezos: Nook E-Book Lending Feature Is ‘Sophie’s Choice’

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:00:15 +0000

“That doesn’t provide any real clue about how many sales publishers are missing when they stick to physical only but it suggests to me that the risks are getting higher.”

…But it also doesn’t count the number of people who buy both because they want to read it on the Kindle, but they want to have a permanent copy as well

By: Just_A_Guy

Just_A_Guy — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:59:08 +0000

Does Amazon’s ebook sales count all the books they sell for S0.00? Because right now, their top 5 sellers and more than half of their top 100 sellers go for that price.

By: All-American Booklover

All-American Booklover — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:05:01 +0000

Kindle ebooks represent only 16-20% of the books I buy. Kindle is great for lots of things, but electronic devices simply cannot replicate the book experience, and while with certain kinds of titles (light reading, esp. fiction) enough of the experience is retained to justify the convenience of the electronic format, I’d venture to say that a majority of titles (cookbooks; books containing many illustrations, photos, and/or diagrams; collections of poems or essays; many textbooks) lose more user-friendliness than they gain by being converted to an e-reader format. Long live the book!

By: Robotech_Master

Robotech_Master — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:32:54 +0000

The RELLY interesting thing about Bezos’s 48-for-every-hundred remark is that he conveniently doesn’t mention that at the moment Amazon is basically subsidizing e-book sales by losing at least $2 on every one.

http://www.teleread.org/2009/12/06/bezos-ducks-the-questions-kindle-e-books-bleed-money-from-amazon