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The Amazon Kindle and other E-Book Readers
yelley:
--- Quote from: Dark Flame on 23 Dec 2008, 13:27 ---Also, where in the world is the average price of a non-used paperback $7
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mass market paperbacks in the US are usually 6.99 or 7.99. most new release paperbacks seem to come out in the larger size first, those ones cost 10 to 16 usually, but are usually reprinted to the smaller mass market size a few months later. or after the book gets made into a movie.
jon, i understand your point, but i think it is unfair to assume that since you don't need one, nobody else should either. as a person who has done a lot of traveling, i cannot tell you how much i wish i had an ebook reader when i was trying to move across the world in 2 suitcases. books are bulky... when packing to come home i had to choose between my books and my clothes. let's just say i had to do a lot of clothes shopping when i got back. also, your library argument does not really hold either. it's nice that you have the luxury of living in a place with a nice library, but a few of the places i have lived in recently have not been so nice. the library in salinas had a very large selection of spanish books, but were sorely lacking in new non-fiction in english.
bicostp:
Meh. For about the same price you can get a netbook and actually be able to do whatever you want with it.
I doubt something like the Kindle will really catch on until the price drops drastically.
Joseph:
--- Quote from: yelley on 25 Dec 2008, 02:04 ---
--- Quote from: Dark Flame on 23 Dec 2008, 13:27 ---Also, where in the world is the average price of a non-used paperback $7
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mass market paperbacks in the US are usually 6.99 or 7.99. most new release paperbacks seem to come out in the larger size first, those ones cost 10 to 16 usually, but are usually reprinted to the smaller mass market size a few months later. or after the book gets made into a movie.
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At least in Canada, it seems the vast majority of literary non-New York Times #1 bestseller type fiction just stays in trade paperback, which I usually much prefer to mass market ones. I was judging what the US price would be off of the stated price on the back of these books. Do that many books which aren't incredibly popular best-sellers really make it to mass-market paperback in the States?
Alex C:
We're awash in paperbacks, honestly.
TimA:
Most books, especially genre books, are released in MM initially. You actually have to have some kind of sales record or sales expectations going in to make the bump to trade paper or hardcover.
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