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coraa ([personal profile] coraa) wrote2010-03-22 10:41 pm
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I would love, love, love it if publishers would offer bundles of ebook and paper book. Like—I'm making up numbers, bear with me—if a paperback is $8 and the ebook version is $6, I'd pay $12 for both the paper copy and a download link. If a hardcover is $20 and the ebook is $10, I'd pay $26 for both. Like that.

I wonder why no big presses have done that. Perhaps they think they can get people to pay full price for both? But that doesn't seem like it'd happen very often.

[identity profile] ceph.livejournal.com 2010-03-23 09:49 am (UTC)(link)
Amazon sort of does this for some textbooks--you get the paper version for $100 or whatever and an online electronic version for another $15 or $20. I bought the e-version to go with one of my glacier textbooks. I haven't looked to see if they've extended it to include Kindle editions, but it seems like a logical next step.

[identity profile] coraa.livejournal.com 2010-03-23 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, cool. [livejournal.com profile] marvinalone says O'Reilly does that too. It does make sense for academic/technical books: the value of having both a copy you can prop open next to your computer and a copy you can search/annotate is pretty clear.