Re: [ubuntu-uk] Book costs (was Re: e-books without Adobe Digital Editions)

2010-11-12 Thread John Levin
On 10/11/2010 08:17, Neil Greenwood wrote: > On 9 November 2010 19:53, richard wrote: >> On 09/11/10 15:40, Neil Greenwood wrote: >>> On 9 November 2010 13:13, pmgazzwrote: >>> >>> >> All the editing etc has to be done for the print copy anyway, and an e >> book has none of the costs of physi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Book costs (was Re: e-books without Adobe Digital Editions)

2010-11-12 Thread Colin Law
On 11 November 2010 22:23, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 21:12 +, Bruno Girin wrote: >> For a publisher, the traditional business model is based on acquiring >> the rights to reproduce a text, producing physical items out of this >> text, shifting those books to distributors a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Book costs (was Re: e-books without Adobe Digital Editions)

2010-11-11 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 21:12 +, Bruno Girin wrote: > For a publisher, the traditional business model is based on acquiring > the rights to reproduce a text, producing physical items out of this > text, shifting those books to distributors and selling the physical > objects. > > Most of the cost

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Book costs (was Re: e-books without Adobe Digital Editions)

2010-11-11 Thread Bruno Girin
On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 18:28 +, Will Bickerstaff wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Glen Mehn > wrote: > > The bank analogy doesn't exactly make sense as banks are > replacing > something expensive for them (employees, time, and physical >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Book costs (was Re: e-books without Adobe Digital Editions)

2010-11-10 Thread Will Bickerstaff
Apologies, I did mean to add that in general I agree with everything you say. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Book costs (was Re: e-books without Adobe Digital Editions)

2010-11-10 Thread Will Bickerstaff
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Glen Mehn wrote: > > The bank analogy doesn't exactly make sense as banks are replacing > something expensive for them (employees, time, and physical space) with > something very scalable and well-understood (web apps). Books switching > to ebook is replacing so

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Book costs (was Re: e-books without Adobe Digital Editions)

2010-11-10 Thread richard
On 10/11/10 08:17, Neil Greenwood wrote: > On 9 November 2010 19:53, richard wrote: > >> On 09/11/10 15:40, Neil Greenwood wrote: >> >>> On 9 November 2010 13:13, pmgazzwrote: >>> >>> Most of all, I'd love to know how it is that digital book production and distribut

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Book costs (was Re: e-books without Adobe Digital Editions)

2010-11-10 Thread Glen Mehn
On 10/11/10 10:20, richard wrote: > > I know nothing about publishing but if you look at the banks, an online > account is usualy a better deal because the costs are lower. There will > always be sales for paper books, because sometimes it is nicer to hold a > nicely made book in your hands, but