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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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29 August 2001 - 9:30 am
I've been thinking about ebooks lately. And their complete and total failure to find any readers. I suspect this is because the geniuses who marketed them decided that their prices should roughly equivalent to the hardback version of the physical book. What were those guys thinking? WHen you buy a book, there is at least the presumption that part of the price goes for the physical manufacture of the book. Obviously, this isn't the case with ebooks, where you had to pay (in some cases) around $300 for the ebook reader, and now they want you to pay full price for the electronic version of the book. One wonders why they didn't initially offer them for less, build a market base, and then raise prices.
And of course, this ignores the whole aspect of the stringent copyright protection built into ebooks that prevented them from being read on any MS-based PDA. Do people not share real books? Has this sharing caused your book industry to fail?
I like reading real books more than electronic ones anyway. I suspect most people do.
Posted by on 29 August 2001 at 9:30 AM
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