Publishers Do the Movie Thing with Staged Releases for eBooks
December 10, 2009
Short honk: The movie folks now release movies in ways to maximize revenue. I have been in a miserable nowhere country where electricity is a hit and miss proposition. In the motion picture facility, the same film playing in Harrod’s Creek was on the screen. In the local video store a copy of the film was for sale, sometimes legal, sometimes not so legal. In “Simon & Schuster Imposing Four-Month Delay on E-book Versions of Major Upcoming Releases” and chuckled. Readers are not the largest group in the US of A’s demographic pool. Making me wait to get an electronic version of a book won’t change my buying habits. I think Kindle is miserable. My Sony reader was more miserable. Nevertheless, I travel with a Kindle in order to minimize the hassle of traveling with books. When i shipped books to myself before I went to Italy, those books never arrived. Why not treat those who read as customers, not as problems. Why not charge those who don’t read lots of books more. Punish them.
Stephen Arnold, December 10, 2009
Oyez, oyez, I want to fess up I was not paid to point out that eBooks weigh less than the real thing. Now to whom do I report? Oh, yes. Fish & Wildlife. That’s what we book readers are—“wildlife”.
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