Kommentare zu: 16 shades of gray: Der Kindle 2.0 ist ab heute auf dem Markt http://weblog.ib.hu-berlin.de/p=6582/index.html Weblog am Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Fri, 10 May 2013 13:52:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Von: Ben http://weblog.ib.hu-berlin.de/p=6582/index.html?cpage=1#comment-662418 Ben Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:45:25 +0000 http://weblog.ib.hu-berlin.de/?p=6582#comment-662418 Die <i>New York Times</i> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/technology/personaltech/10kindle.html?_r=1" rel="nofollow">berichtet</a> heute ausführlich zum Thema. Dabei ergibt sich, nachdem die Frage der Technik so langsam geklärt scheint, dass die nächste Schlacht auf dem Feld der Preisgestaltung geschlagen wird: <blockquote> Amazon generally charges $9.99 for the digital versions of best sellers, although many publishers still sell the digital content to Amazon for the same price that they sell physical books. That means that for now, Amazon is taking a loss or making a small margin on the sale of some e-books. “We do not agree with their pricing strategy,” said Carolyn K. Reidy, chief executive of Simon & Schuster. “I don’t believe that a new book by an author should ipso facto be less expensive electronically than it is in paper format.” Mr. Bezos disagreed. “E-books should be cheaper than physical books. Readers are going to demand that, and they are right because there are so many supply chain efficiencies relative to printing a paper book,” he said.<blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> Die New York Times berichtet heute ausführlich zum Thema. Dabei ergibt sich, nachdem die Frage der Technik so langsam geklärt scheint, dass die nächste Schlacht auf dem Feld der Preisgestaltung geschlagen wird:

Amazon generally charges $9.99 for the digital versions of best sellers, although many publishers still sell the digital content to Amazon for the same price that they sell physical books. That means that for now, Amazon is taking a loss or making a small margin on the sale of some e-books.

“We do not agree with their pricing strategy,” said Carolyn K. Reidy, chief executive of Simon & Schuster. “I don’t believe that a new book by an author should ipso facto be less expensive electronically than it is in paper format.”

Mr. Bezos disagreed. “E-books should be cheaper than physical books. Readers are going to demand that, and they are right because there are so many supply chain efficiencies relative to printing a paper book,” he said.

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