Comments on: Google book sales to begin by June of next year http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/google-book-sales-to-begin-by-june-of-next-year/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:05:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rob Preece http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/google-book-sales-to-begin-by-june-of-next-year/comment-page-1/#comment-1146934 Rob Preece Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:05:51 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=30431#comment-1146934 The 63% sounds horrible to me. and 45% on top of the distributor 50% sounds pretty outrageous. Rob Preece Publisher, www.BooksForABuck.com The 63% sounds horrible to me. and 45% on top of the distributor 50% sounds pretty outrageous.

Rob Preece
Publisher, http://www.BooksForABuck.com

]]> By: Paula B. http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/google-book-sales-to-begin-by-june-of-next-year/comment-page-1/#comment-1146916 Paula B. Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:33:16 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=30431#comment-1146916 At least they're giving authors and publishers a better percentage than Amazon does. That just shows even if you spend lots on infrastructure, it's still possible to treat your suppliers well. Not that Amazon has ever felt it necessary to justify their gouging. At least they’re giving authors and publishers a better percentage than Amazon does. That just shows even if you spend lots on infrastructure, it’s still possible to treat your suppliers well. Not that Amazon has ever felt it necessary to justify their gouging.

]]> By: pond http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/google-book-sales-to-begin-by-june-of-next-year/comment-page-1/#comment-1146903 pond Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:34:09 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=30431#comment-1146903 The online/offline wrinkle is interesting, and a definite plus over online-only reading. IMO, this is needed for readers. But it also raises all sorts of hacking potential. The text will be on your hard drive or flash chips, presumably inside the program files, compressed and encrypted. The history of hacking suggests that these books will soon be cracked. Of course, the printed book is easily scanned and OCR'd or saved as PDF anyway. The online/offline wrinkle is interesting, and a definite plus over online-only reading. IMO, this is needed for readers.

But it also raises all sorts of hacking potential. The text will be on your hard drive or flash chips, presumably inside the program files, compressed and encrypted. The history of hacking suggests that these books will soon be cracked.

Of course, the printed book is easily scanned and OCR’d or saved as PDF anyway.

]]> By: Spider Mattheson http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/google-book-sales-to-begin-by-june-of-next-year/comment-page-1/#comment-1146901 Spider Mattheson Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:49:16 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=30431#comment-1146901 I agree with the statements above. This continues the idea that you're "renting" an e-book instead of purchasing it. If publishers continue to push this kind of business practice, they're going to have to seriously reconsider their pricing scheme. No one wants to pay $10 or more for <i>access</i> to a book (at least, I'm willing to bet that few people are). I'm sure that whatever Google uses now to keep people from copying pages already viewable on Google Books will continue to be used. But if Google Books catches on, it will probably only be a matter of time before someone figures out how to copy and share those. I agree with the statements above. This continues the idea that you’re “renting” an e-book instead of purchasing it. If publishers continue to push this kind of business practice, they’re going to have to seriously reconsider their pricing scheme. No one wants to pay $10 or more for access to a book (at least, I’m willing to bet that few people are).

I’m sure that whatever Google uses now to keep people from copying pages already viewable on Google Books will continue to be used. But if Google Books catches on, it will probably only be a matter of time before someone figures out how to copy and share those.

]]> By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/google-book-sales-to-begin-by-june-of-next-year/comment-page-1/#comment-1146897 David Rothman Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:22:59 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=30431#comment-1146897 Exactly, Steve. I can see the book-in-the-cloud possibility as an option and also for library use, but it would be a shame if this replaced the usual concept of book ownership. Thanks, David Exactly, Steve. I can see the book-in-the-cloud possibility as an option and also for library use, but it would be a shame if this replaced the usual concept of book ownership.

Thanks,
David

]]> By: Steve Jordan http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/google-book-sales-to-begin-by-june-of-next-year/comment-page-1/#comment-1146895 Steve Jordan Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:46:03 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=30431#comment-1146895 Sounds like they're talking about a book you buy, that stays online only... you'll need to access it from a browser with a live connection. If consumers rail against e-books they "don't own" because of DRM, this isn't going to be any more popular... Sounds like they’re talking about a book you buy, that stays online only… you’ll need to access it from a browser with a live connection.

If consumers rail against e-books they “don’t own” because of DRM, this isn’t going to be any more popular…

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