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Books are dinosaur media?
Maybe we can get Stephen King to finish “The Plant” now!
(it was a fun read)
I can understand this. Anytime I go into a local store to find a good novel to read, I can’t, because 90% of the shelf space is taken up by romance novels.
Family and friends share lots of books with each other.
The Kindle would put an end to that.
Got mine for Father’s day. No more carrying two or three books on travel, just one slim Kindle. Love it. BTW, the cost of the books is less than half of the published price. Fits in your coat pocket.
I wonder if they are comparing apples and apples on this...for every 100 hardcover copies of the new James Lee Burke, they are selling 143 e-books?...seems unlikely...magritte
Of course by limiting to vs hardcovers they’re missing 80% of the sales volume. Paperbacks are still what make the industry go round, publishers and stores love the price and profit margin of hardbacks, but for readers they tend to only buy hardbacks for favorite authors.
The problem with this statistic is that the “number of titles” includes self-published “books” that Amazon facilitates for the Kindle (My Life as an Indianapolis Fry Cook). Now if they were to show the count of titles that are also in physical print, and then compare the electronic vs. print sales then you’d see a different story.
My wife and I both read a lot.But..
We usually get the paperback version, read it, change hands, take it to the used book store and trade.
Very few books do I want to read more than once.
Then why have a bunch of books on a Kindle/Nook or whatever.
When they rent them for 30 days for around $5 with an option to buy count me in.
Great until a societal collapse and the electrity goes out and the batteries die.
And Kindle devices aren’t needed to read Kindle titles. You can download a reader from Amazon for use on your PC.
I’m still somewhat sentimental. I don’t buy too many hardcover books or even new ones unless someone buys them for me as a Christmas or birthday present, so I usually wait until I can find a used copy in paperback.
Seeing as how I’ve become a lot cheaper recently, I find the kindle to be far too expensive for my little frugal crusade.
Not good for the paper industry either (which I just retired from after 35 years)
I can agree with this. I have one of the first thousand or so Kindles that were sold. I love and I use it every day. And so far I have bought a little over 500 titles for it so far. And in the last two years I have gone to E-Books exclusively. It just makes sense for me to have my entire library in one hand.
I also have around 60 file boxes of books down on the garage that I am working on selling or donating. As a Kindle version of one of those titles comes available I buy it. With many of the titles in storage going back to the 40’s and 50’s that is going to take some time. Of course I just bought a Lester Del Rey collection for 99cents as a E-Book. What a deal!
And of course as always there are some exceptions to that rule. Any Survival/Prepping type of book is also bought in hard cover. If TSHTF then electricity to charge the Kindle may be hard to come by.
One little ol’ EMP and all kindle type platforms are worthless. That said, I’d love to have a kindle. ;o)
http://www.onesecondafter.com/
I love, love, LOVE my Kindle. It instantly downloads my fave blogs, including American Spectator, Townhall, SHTFplan, and National Review Online. Last week I purchased Larry Schweikart’s book, A Patriot’s History of the United States. (Larry is a fellow Freeper.) Since I have my Kindle with me everywhere I go, it’s just easier to read his book via Kindle than the actual book at 960 pages!
Wish I could afford one. Also, too many stories on Amazon.com of them not honoring the Warranty. And it’s $109 to extend the warranty to 2 years.
I bought my wife a Kindle for her birthday. She loves it.
There are several advantages to it. Books are cheaper. She can get what she wants within a minute (regardless of where she is) and it is lighter than a traditional hard back book.
The only disadvange is you do not end up with a hard cover you can trade in at the used book store, but that was always a minor consideration.
A surprise was we can actually sign on to FreeRepublic via the Kindle. It is not a full function screen, but it is good enough to read headlines and some stories.