On Amazon my textbook sells for $85 and the Kindle edition for $80, so there are almost no Kindle sales. Hard to explain the pricing.
Although pads may change this, students prefer to have paper versions of books. One thing that at least some publishers are trying is to sell both version for slightly more than the print version. Students seem to like that they can have the electronic version when they go to class and the paper versions for when they are studying at home. Re Amazon in general. They have the power to drive down the price of books which reduces the amount the author gets while hopefully increasing sales. However, by driving out competing book sellers it's not clear that in the long run we (authors) are going to be better off with Amazon that we are with the present publishers. Ed __________ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home) an...@cs.unm.edu 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel On Apr 20, 2012, at 6:17 PM, Pamela McCorduck wrote: > Owen, haven't sold enough via Kindle to tell. I was stunned--somebody > informed me on FB--that Machines Who Think sells for thirty bucks on Kindle! > That seems to me a good way of making sure none gets sold. > >> >> Pamela: some of your books come in Kindle versions. Do you have any >> insights about whether or not digital books work out well for the authors? >> Has it hurt, for example, via piracy? >> >> -- Owen >> >> Slightly off-topic: in the science and math journals, there is a serious >> effort to move away from the huge publishers, especially Elsevier and its >> very large number of journals they've quietly acquired over the last decade >> or two. This is succeeding, even to the point of peer reviews being managed >> by the coop, not the publisher. >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> >> Date: Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:02 AM >> Subject: Elsevier — my part in its downfall « Gowers's Weblog >> To: Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> >> >> >> Timothy Gowers the Fields medalist mathematician has a recent post on >> Elsevier and a growing movement to boycott their use >> http://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/elsevier-my-part-in-its-downfall/ >> >> This includes not submitting to the VERY MANY math journals owned by >> Elsevier: >> http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/P11.cws_home/mathjournals >> .. or reviewing submissions >> >> One previous successful act against Elsevier was extraction of the Journal >> of Topology >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology_(journal) >> On 10 August 2006, after months of unsuccessful negotiations with Elsevier >> about the price policy of library subscriptions, the entire editorial board >> of the journal handed in their resignation, with effect from 31 December >> 2006. Subsequently, two more issues appeared in 2007 with papers that had >> been accepted before the resignation of the editors. In early January the >> former editors instructed Elsevier to remove their names from the website of >> the journal, but Elsevier refused to comply, justifying their decision by >> saying that the editorial board should remain on the journal until all of >> the papers accepted during its tenure had been published. >> In 2007 the former editors announced the launch of the Journal of Topology, >> run under the auspices of the London Mathematical Society at a significantly >> lower price. >> >> Its interesting that Timothy also refers to SOPA/PIPA and took part in the >> wikipedia led protest. (I just found out that wordpress made a plugin that >> folks all could use for that and future protests. Impressive!) >> >> I'd really like more of us to be careful about our papers and demand they be >> open. Its not exactly black/white, but certainly the papers have to be >> publicly available, whatever else the publisher's rights may be. >> >> I'd like your opinions, which are quite likely more informed than mine. >> >> -- Owen >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > "She instructed me as if out of bitter personal experience; she brooded along > the edges of my childhood like someone living out a long Tennysonian regret." > > Wallace Stegner, "Angle of Repose" > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
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