There is a discussion on amazon kindle forum over boycotting any e-book that costs more than $9.99. Recently computerworld pubished a report based on that discussion. As of today there are 1251 posts on the topic. According to the report on compuerworld:
Some comments say that certain books are worth more than $9.99, even if they are read on an e-reader, but most complain that Amazon promotes the kindle and kindle 2 by saying it has many thousands of for that price or less.
The general sentiment of commenters is that if a customer pays $359 for a kindle 2, the books should be substantially less than the hardcover or even the paperback cost.
The main argument is that the e-book really costs more than what it should be. One person with the name “Knipfty” have posted the number of $9.99 price e-books are available on amazon kindle store on daily basis:
______Date_______All Kindle________> $9.99______% > $9.99
_25-Feb-09________240,803________80,083_________33.26%
_23-Feb-09________240,405_________80,201_________33.36%
_13-Feb-09________237,821_________80,508_________33.85%
_11-Feb-09________237,138_________79,806_________33.65%
_09-Feb-09________235,945_________78,712_________33.36%
_06-Feb-09________235,712_________78,253_________33.20%
_05-Feb-09________235,061_________70,674_________30.07%
_04-Feb-09________233,482_________69,498_________29.77%
_03-Feb-09________233,118_________69,569_________29.84%
_02-Feb-09________232,592_________69,099_________29.71%
_30-Jan-09________232,308_________68,926_________29.67%
_29-Jan-09________231,491_________68,467_________29.58%
_28-Jan-09________230,562_________68,312_________29.63%
_27-Jan-09________230,060_________68,273_________29.68%
_26-Jan-09________229,783_________68,208_________29.68%
_23-Jan-09________228,169_________67,525_________29.59%
_22-Jan-09________227,486_________67,452_________29.65%
_21-Jan-09________226,625_________67,614_________29.84%
_20-Jan-09________225,515_________67,017_________29.72%
The discussion form is trying to pursue people not to buy e-books that are costly. It’s a kind of campaign among the kindle owners to caught the attention of publishers as well as amazon who are used to say e-books are cheap while that’s not really true.
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