Internet speeds. What do you get?

[grantb]

If Amazon and Apple have their way, ebooks will eventually replace paper books. They are priced to kill the equivalent paper book. True, but sad.

 

[manticle]

Cheaper books maybe. I reckon there'll be trade like there is with vinyl among music/audio fans.

Maybe I'm just being hopeful because my postgrad education is in the conservation of culturally significant paper based objects.

 

[grantb]

I hope your right, but it does make sense. The only people that are going to pay 50% more to get real paper are the purists, and even then I'm not so sure. I've got a lot of "readers" in my family, and I know most of them love the kindle. Personally, I like something more tangible.

 

[pk.sax]

I sometimes read print to give my eyes rest. Besides, where an I going to put away the metcards and stuff if there wasn't a book to do that!

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Would dowmloading the book and printing it out be workable. That would satisfy the book purists and the IT guys...

 

[grantb]

Sure, that works. Probably highly illegal, but then so is recording TV

 

[bum]

Maybe I'm just being hopeful because my postgrad education is in the conservation of culturally significant paper based objects.

Surely everything going out of print helps you then?

 

[Damo007]

If Amazon and Apple have their way, ebooks will eventually replace paper books. They are priced to kill the equivalent paper book. True, but sad.


Lol, every ebook i have bought has been the same price, or more, than a printed version. I buy ebooks for convenience. Not that this has anything to do with internet speeds.....

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[Damo007]

Would dowmloading the book and printing it out be workable. That would satisfy the book purists and the IT guys...


Probably cost you more to print it yourself, unless of course u manage to find a printer laying around idle waiting to be used. *cough* * work * *cough*

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[goomboogo]

Are 50 Shades of Grey and The Da Vinci Code culturally significant paper based objects.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Even russian porn has better dialogue than 50 shades...

Have read a page of 50 shades........

 

[grantb]

Lol, every ebook i have bought has been the same price, or more, than a printed version. I buy ebooks for convenience. Not that this has anything to do with internet speeds.....

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You're probably right wrt Amazon and iTunes. The last books I bought were from Packt Publishing, which were almost half the cost for eBooks vs print. Generally when I buy a book, I do so because I want something to read now, not in 3 weeks. Borders was great for that, but they went belly up. Couldn't compete with Apple's price fixing.

 

[bum]

Apple's price fixing was to keep the price of Borders' competition high. What are you talking about?

 

[grantb]

Apple's price fixing was to keep the price of Borders' competition high. What are you talking about?


I just like to blame Apple for everything. You called me out on it.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Poor old Micro$oft.......they dont get mentioned anymore. Do they still exist

 

[pk.sax]

They're just not evil enough anymore. They tried and failed.

 

[QldKev]

Pretty good considering it's 8km to the closest exchange.

 

[nu_brew]

Optus Cable.


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[sp0rk]

NBN finally went on this afternoon

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

The new liberal version will have you moving the decimal point to the left.