Kindle Bargains
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I'm almost resigned now to purchasing my Kindle books at near retail (paperpack) prices. It appears to be nigh on impossible now to find reasonably recent mainstream(ish) popular authors at anywhere near half the price. I guess the Kindle 'model' is working out for both Amazon & many authors!
Feel free to post up any Kindle books you feel represent good value for money, in comparison with their paperback version.
Personally I am currently into near-future scifi, as well as (auto &) biographies, but for this thread anything goes . . .
Feel free to post up any Kindle books you feel represent good value for money, in comparison with their paperback version.
Personally I am currently into near-future scifi, as well as (auto &) biographies, but for this thread anything goes . . .
I recently bought Conan the Barbarian Omnibus The Original Stories by Robert E. Howard. Not read them since I was a kid and they're definitely good value at £1.92!
Not up to the quality of someone like Gemmell but of that genre.
In the sci-fi genre, and unbelievable value at £free: Accellerando by Charlie Stross
Not up to the quality of someone like Gemmell but of that genre.
In the sci-fi genre, and unbelievable value at £free: Accellerando by Charlie Stross
Edited by IainT on Tuesday 25th September 16:08
Try http://www.ereaderiq.co.uk/ - it lists free and discounted ebooks on Amazon. You can even set it up to monitor your wish list and email you if an ebook on your list is discounted.
ninja-lewis said:
Try http://www.ereaderiq.co.uk/ - it lists free and discounted ebooks on Amazon. You can even set it up to monitor your wish list and email you if an ebook on your list is discounted.
Nice one. Thanks. 
ninja-lewis said:
Try http://www.ereaderiq.co.uk/ - it lists free and discounted ebooks on Amazon. You can even set it up to monitor your wish list and email you if an ebook on your list is discounted.
Nice one fellaThere seem to be a lot of ebooks on the Kindle home page that are only 20p. Some are even authors that I have heard of and like.
I have only just bought a Kindle and although it's bigger, I'm wondering why I got it as I was reading books on my Kindle App via my Laptop, Mac, iPod and HTC Desire. I suppose it's portable and the battery lasts much longer than my phone but it still puzzles me why the digital mainstream books are only pennies less than buying the real copy. The savings over having to make the books, print them and store them must be tremendous.
I have only just bought a Kindle and although it's bigger, I'm wondering why I got it as I was reading books on my Kindle App via my Laptop, Mac, iPod and HTC Desire. I suppose it's portable and the battery lasts much longer than my phone but it still puzzles me why the digital mainstream books are only pennies less than buying the real copy. The savings over having to make the books, print them and store them must be tremendous.
croyde said:
There seem to be a lot of ebooks on the Kindle home page that are only 20p. Some are even authors that I have heard of and like.
I have only just bought a Kindle and although it's bigger, I'm wondering why I got it as I was reading books on my Kindle App via my Laptop, Mac, iPod and HTC Desire. I suppose it's portable and the battery lasts much longer than my phone but it still puzzles me why the digital mainstream books are only pennies less than buying the real copy. The savings over having to make the books, print them and store them must be tremendous.
Paper book = no VAT, eBook = VATI have only just bought a Kindle and although it's bigger, I'm wondering why I got it as I was reading books on my Kindle App via my Laptop, Mac, iPod and HTC Desire. I suppose it's portable and the battery lasts much longer than my phone but it still puzzles me why the digital mainstream books are only pennies less than buying the real copy. The savings over having to make the books, print them and store them must be tremendous.
Bonkers as it's the same product but the eBook is classed as software...
I'd guess the argument would be:
Paper book @£5 might give the publisher a £1 profit as costs = £4.
eBook might only have costs of £0.50 but is marketed at £5 making a far larger profit margin.
The publishing business is less simple though - look at the dominance of Amazon and you see where the real profit is - it's not with the publisher but with the outlet. In the same way Tesco have been accused of squeezing the farmers unreasonably the same is argued by authors and publishers.
Paper book @£5 might give the publisher a £1 profit as costs = £4.
eBook might only have costs of £0.50 but is marketed at £5 making a far larger profit margin.
The publishing business is less simple though - look at the dominance of Amazon and you see where the real profit is - it's not with the publisher but with the outlet. In the same way Tesco have been accused of squeezing the farmers unreasonably the same is argued by authors and publishers.
It's not mentioned on the Amazon site that I can see, but believe it's £49 p.a., not £60.
Still too rich for my blood though - as pointed out, that's over £4 /month for a service I may not use every month. Plenty of books available for purchase less than that too... no-goer for me.
Missed that bit Ali.
Still undecided.
Still too rich for my blood though - as pointed out, that's over £4 /month for a service I may not use every month. Plenty of books available for purchase less than that too... no-goer for me.
Missed that bit Ali.
Still undecided.Unlimited FREE One-Day Delivery
Express Delivery for £4.49 per item (delivery before 1pm)
Evening Delivery for £7.48 per item (certain postcodes)
Share benefits with up to four family members living in the same household.
I had it, don't know why it has lapsed TBH (could be that my card expired), but I know I miss it (delivery can make stuff a lot more expensive) and I can't justify the £49 at the moment to redo it whilst I'm not working
(even tho I've paid more in delivery charges, £50 is still £50!)
Express Delivery for £4.49 per item (delivery before 1pm)
Evening Delivery for £7.48 per item (certain postcodes)
Share benefits with up to four family members living in the same household.
I had it, don't know why it has lapsed TBH (could be that my card expired), but I know I miss it (delivery can make stuff a lot more expensive) and I can't justify the £49 at the moment to redo it whilst I'm not working
(even tho I've paid more in delivery charges, £50 is still £50!)
I meant that the cost of buying one book a month may be around £60 over a year which compared to Kindle Prime, where you can only borrow one book a month, at £49 for the year.Gassing Station | Books and Literature | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff