May 5th, 2011
Fraser Speirs:
I don’t care and don’t want to have to care about the internal structure of your industry and the value chain and who pays for what when. If it doesn’t feel like a good deal, then no deal. All this says to me is “we think you’re a schmuck”.
I’m not unsympathetic to people trying to make a living in book writing or publishing. I merely note that any value proposition that includes within it something about “you, the customer, need to understand our cost structures and pressures” sadly contains the seeds of its own destruction.
I feel bad whenever I see that buying an e-book would cost more than just buying the physical copy. I would love to have all my books be digital, but it just doesn’t appeal to me to pay more for it for the same perception problem.
/via Brooks