Comments on: Here’s why Amazon gets all my money and more http://www.gameproducer.net/2012/02/18/heres-why-amazon-gets-all-my-money-and-more/ I bake games. Indie style. Thu, 16 May 2013 13:23:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jon http://www.gameproducer.net/2012/02/18/heres-why-amazon-gets-all-my-money-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-148209 Jon Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:51:04 +0000 http://www.gameproducer.net/?p=6539#comment-148209 It's STILL hard to get over that price thing though - I realise there's the whole customer perception of value thing, but for anyone who realises just what costs are involved in the manufacturer, distribution, storage, shipping etc etc of a physical product (not even mentioning the authors cut after the publishers profit margin is taken into account) AND then comparing that to the 99.999% profit margin on purely digital content - it is a slap in the face. Question : If a paperback sells at almost the same cost as a digital version - where does all the extra money go? If Apple (and it's app store) has taught us (the consumer) anything, it's the TRUE value of 99.99% of digital goods, indie developers can still eek out a decent living based on 70% share of sales (no publisher / middle man chain required and the consumer ultimately benefits from lower prices), the sooner authors in the digital age wake up and ditch the publishers and go indie then the sooner prices on purely digital content will start to gravitate to where they aught to be. Just my $0.02 It’s STILL hard to get over that price thing though – I realise there’s the whole customer perception of value thing, but for anyone who realises just what costs are involved in the manufacturer, distribution, storage, shipping etc etc of a physical product (not even mentioning the authors cut after the publishers profit margin is taken into account) AND then comparing that to the 99.999% profit margin on purely digital content – it is a slap in the face.

Question :
If a paperback sells at almost the same cost as a digital version – where does all the extra money go?

If Apple (and it’s app store) has taught us (the consumer) anything, it’s the TRUE value of 99.99% of digital goods, indie developers can still eek out a decent living based on 70% share of sales (no publisher / middle man chain required and the consumer ultimately benefits from lower prices), the sooner authors in the digital age wake up and ditch the publishers and go indie then the sooner prices on purely digital content will start to gravitate to where they aught to be.

Just my $0.02

]]> By: Juuso http://www.gameproducer.net/2012/02/18/heres-why-amazon-gets-all-my-money-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-147719 Juuso Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:12:34 +0000 http://www.gameproducer.net/?p=6539#comment-147719 Btw, if you are afraid DRM, looks like there's solutions to bypass it: http://nyquil.org/archives/1235-Converting-Amazon-Kindle-For-PC-Books-Now-Possible.html Btw, if you are afraid DRM, looks like there’s solutions to bypass it:
http://nyquil.org/archives/1235-Converting-Amazon-Kindle-For-PC-Books-Now-Possible.html

]]> By: Juuso http://www.gameproducer.net/2012/02/18/heres-why-amazon-gets-all-my-money-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-147718 Juuso Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:10:08 +0000 http://www.gameproducer.net/?p=6539#comment-147718 That sucks. I found another mentioning similar issue: http://consumerist.com/2011/11/amazon-puts-your-1000-kindle-library-on-hold-apologizes-shrugs.html (2011) Sucks especially as this happened "we won't ever do this again" statement in 2009. I think it could be worth a shot to do a lawsuit about theft "we took your books, here's money". I mean... if somebody would come to my yard, take my car and leave money behind - that's still unacceptable. :) I wonder if there's more horror stories? (Luckily my stuff has been going ok, and I've very much enjoyed the service so far.) That sucks.

I found another mentioning similar issue:
http://consumerist.com/2011/11/amazon-puts-your-1000-kindle-library-on-hold-apologizes-shrugs.html (2011)

Sucks especially as this happened “we won’t ever do this again” statement in 2009.

I think it could be worth a shot to do a lawsuit about theft “we took your books, here’s money”. I mean… if somebody would come to my yard, take my car and leave money behind – that’s still unacceptable. :)

I wonder if there’s more horror stories?

(Luckily my stuff has been going ok, and I’ve very much enjoyed the service so far.)

]]> By: Rob Basler http://www.gameproducer.net/2012/02/18/heres-why-amazon-gets-all-my-money-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-147711 Rob Basler Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:12:38 +0000 http://www.gameproducer.net/?p=6539#comment-147711 Sure there's DRM. I wonder if these people felt like customers: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/amazon-shows-us-why-drm-is-a-bad-idea/4944 Sure there’s DRM. I wonder if these people felt like customers: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/amazon-shows-us-why-drm-is-a-bad-idea/4944

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