Comments on: The Future of Reading? http://rightwordsoft.com/blogs/2009/03/23/the-future-of-reading/ musings from David Grigg Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: david http://rightwordsoft.com/blogs/2009/03/23/the-future-of-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-4 david Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:03:13 +0000 http://rightwordsoft.com/blogs/?p=102#comment-4 Since I wrote this piece, I've been doing a bit more reading. I haven't changed my views, but these links give you more of the publisher's point of view: http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/21/ebook-iphone-oreilly-technology-breakthroughs-ebook.html http://toc.oreilly.com/2008/08/pricing-digital-book-content-wheres-the-sweet-spot.html http://toc.oreilly.com/2009/02/expectation-of-fair-pricing-no.html The latter, in particular, talks about the consumer expectation of FAIR pricing, with which I agree. I don't expect Ruth Rendell's latest book to be FREE in e-book format. But I do expect it to be priced fairly in comparison to the hardcover format. Since I wrote this piece, I’ve been doing a bit more reading. I haven’t changed my views, but these links give you more of the publisher’s point of view:

http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/21/ebook-iphone-oreilly-technology-breakthroughs-ebook.html

http://toc.oreilly.com/2008/08/pricing-digital-book-content-wheres-the-sweet-spot.html

http://toc.oreilly.com/2009/02/expectation-of-fair-pricing-no.html

The latter, in particular, talks about the consumer expectation of FAIR pricing, with which I agree. I don’t expect Ruth Rendell’s latest book to be FREE in e-book format. But I do expect it to be priced fairly in comparison to the hardcover format.

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