Kindles vs books

duncan99210 said:
The profit for them comes from the content which costs them only the fees the publisher charges them for each copy...... Once you've had one for a year, you'll never want to be without one!
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They are not making much out of me then. ;) I have downloaded a lot of books but they were all free. Also surfed the net and loaded .pdf documents on to it.
 
gavin_lacey said:
Compared with buying books from a secondhand bookstore which provide ammunition for countless book swaps as you travel round they are very expensive. The inability to swap explains why publishers are so keen on promoting this new medium.
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They are a bit of cash indeed. But if you are living onboard then the space saving is substantial, I found you only need really maybe half a dozen throwaway books for the swaps. Plenty classics available free for long passages. Being able to get a decent read when you haven't seen a bookshop in english for many months or longer might be a major boon as well.
Wasn't there talk of introducing a swap feature on the kindle?

As for swaps - there should be a website for current exchange rates, a good Ian McEwan must be worth at least 3 Ken Follets. Or does it go by the word, or by weight? Complicated. :D

And another thing with swaps, after a long passage do you find it's a bit depressing to see a book you know you swapped 6 months before has got there before you...
 
djbreeze said:
Who actually digitizes the content? If it's not Amazon then it's not really fair to blame them for the content of the electronic version not being exactly the same as the print...
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The book is digitized by the publisher and its down to them. I know 'cos in yet another shameless plug I have two (soon to be three) novels on there at the moment and I had to 'Kindleize' them using Amazons little software package. However what amazes is me is how many more typos you can spot on the Kindle screen. Just about every book I read has typos even those from really mainstream publishers - makes my mistakes seem acceptable.
 
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