http://paidcontent.org/2011/12/05/419-waterstones-ceo-slams-amazon-reaffirms-plans-for-e-reader-the-windle/ The economics of digital content Fri, 13 Dec 2013 18:54:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://paidcontent.org/2011/12/05/419-waterstones-ceo-slams-amazon-reaffirms-plans-for-e-reader-the-windle/#comment-86492 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:40:43 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/12/05/419-waterstones-ceo-slams-amazon-reaffirms-plans-for-e-reader-the-windle/#comment-86492 The devil? Amazon brought down pricing for…consumers. B & N brought them down prior to that. Indies always had high prices and didn’t move off of that until…B & N and now Amazon. So who is the reader’s friend? Amazon. In our business producing and selling audiobooks and eBooks once again Amazon is the consumer’s friend–selling our eBooks on Kindle for $.99 to $2.99 (and we get $.35 to $2.00 every 30 days by WIRE and on audiobooks on audible.com/itunes 15% (with no physical CDs) every 90 days–and the consumer gets the audiobooks from $1.95 to $4.89 versus $5 in retail stores. Again, who is the consumer’s friend? Amazon. Indies aren’t the “devil.” But they do have the highest prices for consumers and the least variety available.

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2011/12/05/419-waterstones-ceo-slams-amazon-reaffirms-plans-for-e-reader-the-windle/#comment-86491 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:00:30 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/12/05/419-waterstones-ceo-slams-amazon-reaffirms-plans-for-e-reader-the-windle/#comment-86491 It seems ironic when an ex-banker says “They never struck me as being a sort of business in the consumer’s interest. They’re a ruthless, money-making devil,” 

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