Re:Amazon Kindle book lending quietly goes live
by ceejayoz on Thursday December 30, 2010 @02:17PM
(#2053284)
> Note - "they should make less money" isn't an answer.
They should make more money isn't a very good answer, either.
eBooks are massively cheaper to distribute, yet we see a minimal discount. Add in the fact that they're limiting lending to once per book when I can lend a physical book infinitely many times and you're looking at higher profits for eBooks than normal books.
Re:Amazon Kindle book lending quietly goes live
by jonhendry on Thursday December 30, 2010 @06:15PM
(#2053891)
"eBooks are massively cheaper to distribute, yet we see a minimal discount. "
Because distribution is a small amount of the cost of production.
Re:Amazon Kindle book lending quietly goes live
by tejaswiy on Thursday December 30, 2010 @01:00PM
(#2052977)
The same way that they've been handling it till now. Book lending isn't really a new invention. Even with the turn off the wireless hack, you can have a max of two copies of the book at once. I don't think it's that big a deal.
Note the word "sellers" - they don't make any money from lending, just from selling.
They're really scared that they'll sell one copy and everyone will read that copy (or copies of it).
Note - "they should make less money" isn't an answer.