Amazon Kindle

[pip]

Amazon does seem to do a deal on buying both the ebook and audio version of books . It would be a great way for the publishers to screw amazon and give a bit back to bookshops by selling real books with a code inside for ebook versions.

 

[raisindot]

Yeah, but Amazon owns Audible, so offering a ebook/audiobook combo pack makes economic sense for Amazon since it helps boosts the visibility (or is it audiobility?) of MPEG-based audiobooks, which are far less popular than ebooks at this point. Listening to an audio book for the first time is very likely, given the right book and reader, to make you buy more (I know listening to my first DW audiobook convinced me to get every DW book Briggs has head, along with a few selected Planers).

If Amazon didn't already own the e-book market it might make sense for them to offer hardcover/ebook combos. But, again, the publisher has to pay Amazon to offer this deal, since Amazon hosts the ebooks (unless the publisher is using a different retailers, but almost none of them have anything close to Amazon's market share).

 

[Tonyblack]

Interestingly, I had an email from Amazon the other day telling me that some of the CDs I have bought from them in the past (going back to 2005) are now available for me to download free as MP3 files. As it happened, of the three mentioned, I'd already converted two to MP3 files, but I was very happy to be able to download the third.

This is Amazon saying: Hey, you bought the CD, here, have the MP3 as well.

Maybe this really will happen with books and Kindles.

 

[raisindot]

Interestingly, I had an email from Amazon the other day telling me that some of the CDs I have bought from them in the past (going back to 2005) are now available for me to download free as MP3 files. As it happened, of the three mentioned, I'd already converted two to MP3 files, but I was very happy to be able to download the third.

This is Amazon saying: Hey, you bought the CD, here, have the MP3 as well.

Maybe this really will happen with books and Kindles.

Tony, they're not doing this because they want to be generous--they (and the record companies) are doing this to market their MP3-purchase service in the hopes that you will make future purchases as MP3s, rather than CDs. After all, it's a lot more profitable for record companies to sell songs directly to consumers in electronic format that have to publish, package, warehouse and distribute CDs.

Book publishers, in general, are decades behind record companies in terms of trying to push sales of e-books over print books, so I don't see "buy print books/get e-books" deals happening for a while unless certain publishers want to get out of the hardbound book industry entirely.

 

[Tonyblack]

Yes, I have no doubt that the motive is to persuade me to buy MP3 downloads rather than CDs - "free" usually has a price attached to it.

 

[pip]

With the books I can't see amazon instigating change or extras in a market they are already dominating. As far as they are concerned its working . If people are willing to pay nearly the same price for just the ebook why offer incentives.

 

[The Mad Collector]

I was thinking today that it would be a great idea if Amazon offered Kindle owners a free download of the book when they bought the hardback. I'd be quite happy to buy a new Pratchett hardback from them if I could also load that book to a Kindle.

Your wish is 'sort of' granted

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23953258

 

[pip]

Still won't buy a kindle

 

[The Mad Collector]

Neither will I but it will be interesting to see which books I get offered for free when it happens here

 

[pip]

For thoswe who choose to kindle it you can Pimp them up Discworld style with the new Terry Pratchett covers from Waterstones . Think they are £30

 

[Bouncy Castle]

No thanks.

 

[pip]

Grump
We'll find a fifty shades of grey one for you

 

[Bouncy Castle]

To be honest, I think it looks cheap and tacky, and easily dirtyable.

I'll stick with my faux-leather one!

 

[pip]

Nothing says class like faux leather

 

[Bouncy Castle]

I'm a classy bird, me!

 

[pip]

Pass the Blue Nun

 

[Bouncy Castle]

Nah, Black Tower or a nice Tia Maria and lemonade!!

 

[jimpeters]

Well I am completely converted, after getting a kindle from http://www.amazon.co.uk I cannot put the thing down its nothing like reading from a computer screen, and I can carry all the books I want on it (Instead of a 10kg rucksack!). I used a voucher from this site to get the color of magic on a free trial from http://www.audible.com (who also sell ebooks as well as audio books). Not bad at all, I must admit you don`t quite get that tactile reading experience from a physical book, however its a lot cheaper and more convenient.

 

[pip]

Cheaper is the biggest fib I've heard for a kindle. New books cost about the same no matter what format and normal books don't need the device. Can we kick a spammer for false advertising.

 

[Tonyblack]

Cheaper is the biggest fib I've heard for a kindle. New books cost about the same no matter what format and normal books don't need the device. Can we kick a spammer for false advertising.

I'm not convinced that this is spam, Pip. And I'm not convinced that it's advertising either. I'm going to leave it for now.

jimpeters, if this is a genuine post, please let us know more about yourself as we get suspicious when a new poster posts links in their first post - even if those links are to well known sites such as Amazon and Audible. I don't know Buzz Coupon Codes.com, but perhaps jimpeters can tell us more about it?