{"id":17693,"date":"2010-06-30T07:13:16","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T13:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=17693"},"modified":"2010-06-30T07:13:16","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T13:13:16","slug":"a-kindle-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/30\/a-kindle-thought.html","title":{"rendered":"A Kindle thought"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Amazon<\/a>There are definitely times (my recent business trip\/vacation) when a Kindle would be handy.\u00a0 But all the practical and pragmatic problems I have with the device and its utilization and DRM<\/a> still remain.<\/p>\n

But … what if Amazon instead also sold Kindle downloads of books as a surcharge to hardcopies.\u00a0 So for example.<\/p>\n

Faboo Book (Kindle ed.): $9.99
\nFaboo Book (hardcover): $15.99
\nFaboo Book (hardcover + Kindle): $17.99<\/p>\n

Unless Amazon is already seeing a lot of doubled-up sales like that, the third option is a win for everyone — Amazon (more money), publishers\/etc. (more money), and customers (a hardcopy for hardcopy’s sake and permanent ownership and loanability and all that jazz; a Kindle copy for, well, the Kindle).\u00a0 And Amazon benefits even further by increasing the sales of Kindles (since folks can add the utility of a Kindle copy to their original purchase for an incremental cost).<\/p>\n

Heck, Amazon knows every single book I’ve ever purchased from them — why don’t they offer me a $2 Kindle version of each whenever I want it?<\/p>\n

The problem has been this sort of “either-or” false proposition — people either buy a “real” copy of a book, or they buy a Kindle copy.\u00a0 With this sort of deal, both options are available, and nobody loses.<\/p>\n

I know since the big kerfuffle a while back with one of the publishers, the T&Cs by which Amazon sells Kindle copies are somewhat constrained, but I think they still have pretty much the ability to sell Kindle versions at the price point they want, so that’s not an issue.<\/p>\n

I’m sure someone will note that, “Well, this lets someone buy the hardcopy and the Kindle version, then resell the hardcopy to someone else.” Um, so?\u00a0 Amazon, the publisher, and the author have all gotten their cut of both a hardcopy and Kindle copy being bought.\u00a0 I seriously doubt the used book sales in this case are going to cannibalize much from new sales — and the big fear of people being able to loan or sell their digital copies of the books stays out of the picture.<\/p>\n

So what important reason for Amazon et al. not to do something like this am I missing?\u00a0 It seems a natural and straightforward enough deal that I’m surprised they haven’t, so presumably I’m being myopic in one aspect of this or another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are definitely times (my recent business trip\/vacation) when a Kindle would be handy.\u00a0 But all the practical and pragmatic problems I have with the device and its utilization and DRM still remain. But … what if Amazon instead also sold Kindle downloads of books as a surcharge to hardcopies.\u00a0 So for example. 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