Comments on: Chronicle of Education discusses Kindle http://www.teleread.com/kindle/chronicle-of-education-discusses-kindle/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:55:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Steve Jordan http://www.teleread.com/kindle/chronicle-of-education-discusses-kindle/comment-page-1/#comment-1053629 Steve Jordan Fri, 08 May 2009 14:59:31 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=21573#comment-1053629 Agreed. And I wouldn't sweat the university "bookstores" too much... they can make up the lost sales on branded T-shirts, shorts, shot-glasses, pens, pennants, stuffed mascots, hats, backpacks, purses, keyrings, staplers, toolkits, beer can holders... Agreed. And I wouldn’t sweat the university “bookstores” too much… they can make up the lost sales on branded T-shirts, shorts, shot-glasses, pens, pennants, stuffed mascots, hats, backpacks, purses, keyrings, staplers, toolkits, beer can holders…

]]> By: Rob Preece, Publisher http://www.teleread.com/kindle/chronicle-of-education-discusses-kindle/comment-page-1/#comment-1053617 Rob Preece, Publisher Fri, 08 May 2009 14:34:13 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=21573#comment-1053617 Assuming the textbook publisher get the pricing right, this could be a huge win-win-win for publishers, authors, and students (but not so much for university bookstores). eTextbooks could be priced at less than the net price of a paper textbook less its resale value. eTextbooks wouldn't have to be updated with artificial editions designed only to spike the used textbook market (at a current huge cost to publishers) and authors could reap royalties based on all of their books sold rather than simply first sale. One semester's savings could pay for a Kindle DX for the student. If, on the other hand, publishers attempt to price eTexts at the same level as paper texts, I can't see any fast movement. Rob Preece Assuming the textbook publisher get the pricing right, this could be a huge win-win-win for publishers, authors, and students (but not so much for university bookstores). eTextbooks could be priced at less than the net price of a paper textbook less its resale value. eTextbooks wouldn’t have to be updated with artificial editions designed only to spike the used textbook market (at a current huge cost to publishers) and authors could reap royalties based on all of their books sold rather than simply first sale. One semester’s savings could pay for a Kindle DX for the student. If, on the other hand, publishers attempt to price eTexts at the same level as paper texts, I can’t see any fast movement.

Rob Preece

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