Comments on: King’s e-book news

By: Jim Donahue

Jim Donahue — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:46:25 +0000

If you buy a hardcover copy, they should throw in a digital copy for free!

(Hey, lots of DVD releases now come w/ a second, digital copy of the film that you can download to your iPod or other mobile device.)

By: Vodka Mom

Vodka Mom — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:28:28 +0000

I agree with your observation that the e-reader is a different clientele.

completely agree.

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By: shorty411

shorty411 — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:41:54 +0000

I agree that the digital copy should be released with the hardcover just like the digital is being released with many blu-rays, in some you also get the dvd and digital.

Speaking of movies, I think the delay of the e-book is something they picked up from movies. There is a standard, required wait time for movies to go to DVD after they are released in the theaters. But reading a hardcover is not like seeing a movie in the theater, so the wait does not have the same affect. Books are more like music, the album comes out in CD and MP3 format on the same day since the listening experience isn't appreciably different.

By: Gilbert J. Avila

Gilbert J. Avila — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:39:38 +0000

What keeps me away from the e-readers is not knowing which ones will be joining Betamax and Hi-Def in the electronic elephant's burial ground of incompatibility.

By: joelle

joelle — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:40:53 +0000

I do think it's a different audience. I recently heard Lyle Lovett on a radio show on the BBC and thought, "Oh, I wonder if he's touring." I went to his official website and the first page that loads is a link to Amazon where you can download his NEW album for $3.99 for a limited time. I love Lyle, but my husband is a musician and so I have so much live music in my house that I don't buy a lot of CDs and I've never downloaded a tune before. I wouldn't have bothered to go buy his CD, but this seemed like a great opp and I immediately popped over there to buy it. Alas, it was only good for the US and I'm in Canada, but my point is the same. I am not the person who would buy the CD in the store, but given an opportunity like this, I would've bought the download for $4. That's $4 more than they would've gotten if they didn't have this offer set up. Likewise, I am not the person who will buy the e-copy. If I want your book, I'll buy it as a book. You would not lose out on my sale by having e-books go on sale at the same time. Different audience. By the way, I have downloaded Suze Orman's Women and Money (or whatever it's called) when Oprah had it available for free and I've NEVER read it because I don't read e-books! It hurts my head to read on any screen.

By: Angela Korra'ti

Angela Korra'ti — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:47:45 +0000

I would LOVE to be able to buy a print and a digital release of a book at the same time. This would work beautifully with how I foresee myself buying books going forward: print copies for the authors most important to me, but for the vast majority of my reading, it'll be ebooks. A great idea indeed.

By: DGLM

DGLM — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:31:50 +0000

You make a good point Angela. We were just discussing the size of this particular book in our morning meeting — it certainly would be easier all around to read it electronically.

Teresa, I totally agree that releasing books simultaneously could really increase sales — hardcover, audio, electronic. What a great idea.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:09:19 +0000

I have to agree with you that readers of hardcover books and readers of e-books are very different. For myself, unless I'm traveling give me a real physcal book any time. (For travel I love the portability of the Kindle, etc.)

By: MickP

MickP — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:32:53 +0000

The decision is clearly an attempt to control the marketing of the book, and shouldn't surprise anybody; after all, everybody has to get their piece of the pie.

It also shouldn't surprise anybody that Wal-Mart is undercutting even the publisher... they've been screwing people over for years. Why not screw Scribner and the author as well?

The e-book shouldn't cost so much, though... the process to create an e-book is far less complicated... so Scribner is just trying to make a buck on what's considered "new" technology.