Amazon Kindle

What's on you Kindle BMMF?

I can't answer that, because I have 'Miscellaneous & Meaningless' on ignore.

I'll break your Edlish, boy.

Fixed.

I mean, broken.

I can't answer that, because I have 'Miscellaneous & Meaningless' on ignore.

Fair point.

Bike Snob NYC;

Surprisingly better than I'd though.

• many more. Search "cycling" and they will appear.
  
  

I figure, but even so, I've no idea which's which is worth reading.

It's all worth reading.

Bike Snob NYC is a book worth giving to all non cyclists who are friends of your as it will explain to them why people cycle and what excites cyclists. It is beautifully written.

I would love to do the ride across Long Island that he does.

in case anyone is interested, I just bought a book which was only available in the US (ie not through amazon.co.uk or even in europe via amazon.com)

just added the address of a Hotel in New York to my account, fired up the amazon store on the kindle, paid in dollars using my usual 1-click card thingy, book arrived seconds later.

I have since changed my address back.

seemed to work perfectly, dunno if there could be any comeback, presumably they cannot deauthorise a book because you appear to be in a different country..

Is there a reputable cheap site to get books from for a kindle?
Am tempted by one but don't like paying retail for ebooks.

You don't like paying retail for someone that doesn't have paper anymore?

yeah.

Same here. If the production costs are less then why not pass the savings on? I thought ebooks were generally cheaper though?

Is there a reputable cheap site to get books from for a kindle?
Am tempted by one but don't like paying retail for ebooks.

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://bibliotik.org/

VAT applies to eBooks, however you are quite correct- production costs are a lot lower.

I imagine that Amazon et al have made a commercial decision and set the pricing at what they think the market will bear.

I've bought quite a few eBooks now and the price is usually (but not always) below the paper version.

Sometime the pricing were only a quid less than the paperback version, whIch I though were odd, especially as I though paperback cost a bit more than that to produced.

One problem with e-books is that they are VATable and so 20% is tax. Books are zero-rated for VAT.

The thing is its 1 digital copy they are selling 1000 times, rather than 1000 copies being sold once.
Also there is no need for warehouse space, no pickers to get it, no postage costs, etc.
They should be half the cost at least. (i am tight fished BTW)

Cost of publishing and selling a book includes

Author
Editor
Publisher
Marketing
Paper
Printing
Artwork
Binding
Warehousing
Transport
Retail space
Sales assistants

For e-books

Author
Editor
Publisher
Marketing
Electronic publishing
Amazon margin
VAT

clive, artwork are sometime included, e.g. Bike Snob's book still have it's illustration despite being in an ebook format.

unless you meant the book cover that is.

All my Kindle books are electronically bound in electronic leather. You need to move upmarket.

OFT are already investigating for publisher price fixing

Yup, publishers have been fixing here... eBooks will eventually be lower, and whilst they're about 30% lower now, with VAT included they come out only 10% lower.

Personally I blame the pirates who download e-books on torrents*

*just kidding we all know internet pirates can't read.

Well, haaaaaaargly at all anyway...