I’m not writing about movies in this article, but on something else, my Kindle, or more specifically the pricing of certain books on it. Since I got my Kindle a few weeks back, I have loved it. I began downloading free books and bought several mysteries and horror books, usually in the $.99 to $4.99 range.
But I am noticing there are a lot of books that are almost full price as you would pay in the store for a physical copy. $9.99 seems overpriced for Rex Stout reprints. And new books can be at a minimum of $14.99. It is perplexing. After all I’m not paying for the paper and hard cover of a new book, all I’m really paying for is the text. So why is it as expensive as buying a physical book?
I discovered the answer the other day while surfing Amazon. The price is set by the publisher. Makes you think doesn’t it. Though there are no printing or binding costs, there is still the cost of putting the text into a file for downloading, but come on, full price for e-books is kind of pushing it.
Do I feel like I’m being gouged like I am at the gas pump? Yeah, but I’m a voracious reader and so just like pumping gas in the car, I’m pumping books into my Kindle. I know no one forced me to buy the new Dresden Files book Ghost Story or the Mickey Spillane/ Max Allan Collins collaboration The Big Bang, but like a good American I’m gonna bitch about it.
Well now that I got that off my chest I will return this site back to movies, and finish the last few chapters of Ghost Story. Thanks for letting me vent.
