Am 04.07.2011 23:36, schrieb Walter Bright: > On 7/4/2011 12:47 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: >> Free books does not mean free eBooks. A free book takes money to >> create every >> copy, so it can be assumed that if it's free, they are making their >> money some >> other way (i.e. they are selling you something indirectly). But a free >> eBook >> does not require money per copy to produce, so its quality cannot be >> judged >> based on the price (either way, check out alphascript publishing). > > Cannot be? Sure. But it is. There were some recent articles about how > Amazon is being flooded with junk ebooks, and that a lot of people seem > to be filtering them based on price. >
And then there are these idiots selling Wikipedia articles printed on demand quite expensively, so price is a rather bad criteria. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphascript and http://thanetonline.blogspot.com/2011/01/great-internet-bookselling-rip-off.html ) I wouldn't be surprised if similar (expensive) scams exist for the kindle as well. Cheers, - Daniel