I prefer eBooks - but the prices are just silly

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Mastering VMware Vsphere 5.5: Amazon.co.uk: Scott Lowe, Nick Marshall, Forbes Guthrie, Matt Liebowitz, Josh Atwell: Books
How can the eBook be almost twice as much as the hard copy ?!
How can the eBook be almost twice as much as the hard copy ?!
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Mastering VMware vSphere 5.5: Scott Lowe, Nick Marshall, Forbes Guthrie, Matt Liebowitz, Josh Atwell: 9781118661147: Amazon.com: Books
It irritates me, too.
These companies have nearly zero overhead on the electronic versions, but seem to be trying to gouge the market to make extra dough. This is what prompts cheapies like me to buy used paper books. I tried to go completely electronic for newly purchased reading materials about a year or so ago, and it just got ridiculous quick.
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Some hard copy books give you a discount code for 70% off the ebook price, which you can download in epub, mobi, and pdf formats. That's the route I've been taking lately. Otherwise, I agree that the ebook prices are ridiculous.
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Manufacturing costs which are almost nothing for ebooks doesn't have to reflect in the price, the publisher controls the price based on demand. I do buy a lot of self published stuff on Amazon at lower prices based on peer reviews and that is pretty much the future of publishing in general.
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Oh please, this part is absolutely worse in everyway than electronic, even if you are a paper fanboy. Electronic trumps physical in everyway when it comes to ease of having a library and referring back to it at need. You can't ctrl-f in paper and scan a 1400 page in 3 seconds. Let's stay rational.
10 books a month for $12? The site says $19.99 per month after the free 1-month trial then $27.99/mo after first 6 Months.
for study I like real books, the fact I can easily flip back and forth, yes you can put bookmarks in electronic books, but there nothing like being able to Flip back 3 pages to a digram to jog your memory, some electronic formats are getting better but its still not a nice. Also at home I study with my laptop and I like to have GNS3 open and hate having to flip back and forth between it and a document. Rather have the Lab manual or study book on the desk so its easy to refer to.
As for personal reading I use my Kindle when I am out and about, but at home I like a real book. Probable have about 300 - 400 books on shelf's around the house, fiction and non fiction and I like to think it reflects mine and my wife's interests. I am the kind of person who will buy a book for my kindle, and if I like it will buy the hard copy to put on the shelf as well
I'm fine with the preference part, really, I am. Someone says they like paper more or digital more, cool. It's when they start spouting claims that are completely baseless where I flip out. You're allowed to love whatever you want, but if you tell me your paper copy of CCNA OCG vacuums your house for you while youre at work I'm going to call bs. =p
not vacuum, but it works as a great book end to the rest of my library. but the statement made was physical books are easy to make notes in and refer back to. Which they are.
Another thing I find about electronic books is all the different formats. I buy it for my kindle, but then I can look at it on my PC unless I install the kindle viewer, Or I down load the PDF but when I send it to my kindle it looses all the book marks and high lights.
however one magazine i read "BBC Focus" really shows how electronic books should be done. Unlike every one else who takes the physical book and jsut scans it in. the BBC have added loads of stuff like videos, sound clips and animations, scrolling time lines and other nice touches.
When the publishers start to embrace the advantages you get from electronic then I will seriously consider geting in to them more.