Comments on: Zombies Vs Unicorns Makes Entertainment Weekly

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:33:44 +0000

This is really a nice blog related with entertainment.

By: christy

christy — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:59:02 +0000

that’s the thing… I wanted an eReader for a while, and I was leaning toward the Kindle — then this! and now, I am not so much in favor of the Kindle. -__- Will stick with my physical library of books for a while yet… though I am desperately dreading my next move which will require me to haul bins full of books down a set of stairs, across the complex, through the parking lot, and into my car… and then into the next play I occupy. Le Sigh.

By: Annie

Annie — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:15:19 +0000

I definitely wasn’t trying to say that ebooks shouldn’t cost anything. But I don’t think an e-book should cost the same as a hardback. If I was sold on the ebook format, I would be willing to spend $10 on it, but no more than that.

By: Blackwatch

Blackwatch — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:18:45 +0000

Well, the problem is not the same here, in Europe. But even if the offer of e-readers was as large and popular as in the US, I still think I would buy my copy of “Ascendant” or “Zombies VS Unicorns” in bookstores ^^

By: Cassandra Yorgey

Cassandra Yorgey — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:56:16 +0000

I’ve been wondering what happened to the Macmillan books *already* purchased on Kindles – I had suspicions since Amazon crept in at night and stole everyones copies of 1984. It’s almost like the company is *trying* to sytematically make people hate them.

By: PurpleRanger

PurpleRanger — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:21:14 +0000

Zombies vs. Unicorns — is this the new Pirates vs. Ninjas?

By: Diana

Diana — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:12:55 +0000

Annie, the thing is, right now, they’re actually NOT saving a whole bunch of money. I sell maybe a handful of ebooks for every title, and yet the publisher has to pay to convert and list these books in a dozen different formats, and deal with and check and correct all the bugs that each conversion introduces — not to mention the money spent for legal to track down and police the hundreds of pirated versions that pop up all the time.

Unless you are buying a very popular book, you aren’t really paying for printing and shipping. You are paying for editing, copyediting, keeping the lights on at the publisher, cover design, marketing and — oh yeah, writing. Publisher EAT the cost of shipping by the millions because of the returns system.

This whole “ebooks shouldn’t cost anything because they don’t cost anything to make” argument is something invented by the makers of ebook readers to justify you spending $400 on their product.

By: Annie

Annie — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:06:33 +0000

I haven’t bought into the e-book idea because I love paper books. I love seeing them on my shelves. I love having a spine call out to me and get me to pick it up and read it. I love dog earing pages. I love being able to loan a book to a friend. I love knowing that 20 years from now, so long as my eyes still work, I will still be able to read my paper version.

There’s just something wrong to me about spending a ton of money on a digital reader, then spending the same amount of money I’d pay for a hard copy version of a book when the publisher hasn’t had to fork out costs for printing and shipping, etc. They’re saving so much money on e-book sales and yet the consumer doesn’t see the deiscount. I can’t loan out a book I have on a kindle. And if technology changes in x many years, I’d be paying for new readers and rebuying books I like to reread.

I think that’s awful that your friend’s book disappeared! I’s be SO PISSED!!!!!!

And I refuse to give Amazon business. With all that “censoring” they did with various romance titles a while ago, I just don’t like the way they handle things and would rather spend my money elsewhere.