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Price of kindle books!

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  • #32
    Giselle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭Giselle


    The Snipe wrote: »
    Nope, my account is set up with Amazon.com and I get charged in USD.

    All Irish customers are sent to the Amazon.com site and billed in USD. Its to do with DRM, as far as I know. I don't know anyone who buys their ebooks from Ireland through any other Amazon site.

    Thats what I mean by you not having a choice in the matter.

    From http://www.irishpublishingnews.com/tag/irish-kindle/

    ''Irish customers must buy Kindle ebooks from the Amazon.com site too*. This wrinkle means that although there are now four Euro denominated Kindle stores (Spain, Italy, Germany and France) Irish buyers purchase their ebooks in Dollars and with a slight price disadvantage.''


  • #33
    hairyprincess
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭hairyprincess


    Love, love, love my Kindle. I wouldn't be without it! I don't think the books are any more expensive than paper books. And they have a daily 99p book.

    I'm definitely reading a lot more since I got it, so for that it wins!


  • #34
    Cork24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,663 ✭✭✭Cork24


    How much cheaper are they if you buy them from the American Amazon as when i go to buy books its taken me to the Uk Site which is in pound


  • #35
    fortwilliam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 713 ✭✭✭fortwilliam


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    Oh, and BTW, kindles are the greatest gadget in existence. I'd be lost without mine.


    Kindle have GPS now ?


  • #36
    Cork24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,663 ✭✭✭Cork24


    This is what i cant understand...


    Kindle Edition 47 USD
    http://www.amazon.com/Certified-Wireless-Administrator-Official-ebook/dp/B00316UMWG/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1340058848&sr=8-4&keywords=CWNA

    Paperback 37 USD
    http://www.amazon.com/CWNA-Certified-Wireless-Administrator-Official/dp/111812779X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1340058848&sr=8-1&keywords=CWNA


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  • #37
    Giselle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭Giselle


    Cork24 wrote: »
    How much cheaper are they if you buy them from the American Amazon as when i go to buy books its taken me to the Uk Site which is in pound

    I don't know about paper books, but its much of a muchness with the eBooks.


  • #38
    robinph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,146 ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Cork24 wrote: »
    This is what i cant understand...


    Kindle Edition 47 USD
    http://www.amazon.com/Certified-Wireless-Administrator-Official-ebook/dp/B00316UMWG/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1340058848&sr=8-4&keywords=CWNA

    Paperback 37 USD
    http://www.amazon.com/CWNA-Certified-Wireless-Administrator-Official/dp/111812779X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1340058848&sr=8-1&keywords=CWNA

    Because they can get away with it?

    I'd not be able to make use of a technical book on the likes of a kindle though, would need to be the hard copy for it to be of use. Of course those books would tend to weigh a ton so that makes the electronic version easier to cart about, but still wouldn't be able to "read" such a book kindle'ified.


  • #39
    The_Thing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭The_Thing


    Giselle wrote: »
    I would love the creative ability to write, and write well. Its a talent I really admire and reading is my great love. I would never deny an author an income from their work, they deserve it for giving me the pleasure and escapism of their stories. So no, I've never downloaded books illegally.

    I have a kindle and even though I'm a complete techno-idiot, its my favourite thing ever. I have a backlit Kindle Fire tablet/eReader that I use to read in the dark in bed, and I bought a regular Kindle Touch that comes everywhere with me. Everywhere I go, I take at least 200 books because of that Kindle. I used to be devoted to paper, never saw myself embracing the Kindle, but now I never look back.

    Every cent I spend on Kindle books is money well spent for the enjoyment they give me.

    Giselle, nothing ventured, nothing gained as they say so here's a few links you or others may be interested in:

    http://absolutewrite.com/

    http://absolutewrite.com/forums/index.php


  • #40
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    robinph wrote: »
    Because they can get away with it?

    I'd not be able to make use of a technical book on the likes of a kindle though, would need to be the hard copy for it to be of use. Of course those books would tend to weigh a ton so that makes the electronic version easier to cart about, but still wouldn't be able to "read" such a book kindle'ified.
    Kindle DX is a larger version (9" screen I think) which makes it more suitable for reading technical pdf documents without conversion. Heard rumours that it was to be discontinued though. In this case I can see the advantage of an iPad/tablet, but for general reading, no.


  • #41
    Rango555
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87 ✭✭Rango555


    Sulla Felix wrote: »
    Anyway, link for people saying ebooks are free to produce.

    http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/e-books-do-not-cost-nothing-to-produce/

    Your link doesn't really help your argument... the author sums up with
    McFadden does admit she may not be putting Chabon’s words into the right context. And I think that’s right. She’s kind of comparing apples and oranges. Yes, e-books have fixed costs of production, of the sort she describes. So do paper books. And they share many of the same costs, and (as McFadden notes) since e-book publishing and print publishing are often treated as two separate things instead of one thing with two separate products, they often duplicate those costs. But what Chabon is talking about when he says they “cost nothing to produce” is the marginal cost. It costs a certain amount of money to run off each paper book, to ship it, to store it, and possibly to ship it back and destroy it. But e-books have such a miniscule production cost per unit—a few watts of electricity, a few kilobytes of bandwidth—that they effectively cost nothing to run off each digital copy. So if we assume that fixed costs are equal, e-books will earn those costs out much faster while not adding any marginal ones.
    Also the comments on it are an interesting read.


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