Post by Omen on Jul 12, 2013 3:06:06 GMT -5
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A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that Apple had illegally conspired with five of the six biggest publishers to try to raise prices in the budding e-books market.
The decision came two days after Barnes & Noble lost its chief executive and said it would not appoint another, signaling that the biggest chain of physical bookstores could be immediately broken up.
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This is MONUMENTAL!!! This means that the Big-Boys of old will have to deal with the small people in the world that don't WANT to sell their eBooks at a high price, knowing that it will SIGNIFICANTLY decrease the chances of customer purchases.
For a young start-up publishing company, introducing new authors, this is priceless!! They can offer their products at $2.99 or $4.99 which is FAR more affordable to a reader looking to try something different, as compared to $12.99 or $14.99.
If the higher priced was forced on small publishing houses, opportunities would be lost as customers would stay with the titles and companies they know, for the $14.99 that they would be spending.
You see… the secret of eBooks is that they cater more to STORYTELLING rather than the fierceness of book sales. The Big-Boys depend on book sales to continue their livelihood.
A new writer, simply wants to share their story with the world.
If a new writer could supplement their income with the sharing of their creations, most would gladly quit their jobs. I’m not talking about getting filthy rich, I’m talking about making as much or a little bit more than their making now, but know that they have people all of the world that are fans of their creations.
These are the people that eBooks serve most and best. The Big-Boys know this.
They couldn’t stop them when eBooks first appeared. Amazon jumped on it and began selling them on their site as fast as they could. It was an excellent strategic move.
The Big-Boys launched a massive marketing campaign and tried their best to discredit this new wilderness of creativity by spotlighting poor editing, garbage designs, inexperienced storytelling, broken concepts, and shoddy presentations from the products.
And yet… eBooks continued to sell!
Small publishing houses were created by teachers, out-of-work journalists, editors, and BELIEVERS, as they organized to help Storytellers to get their creations out to the world by cleaning up their ‘works’. The editors edited, the teachers taught, the artists drew, and the believers had faith.
Ebooks continued to sell!!
The Big-Boys wanted to control the industry by using risk as their guide. They specialized in regurgitating the same type of stories, because they knew that they sold. For every ‘Twilight’ book, there were tons of similar products rushed to the shelves by the Big-Boys along assignments shoved down their contracted author’s throats to create more and more books that were just like it.
The bare chested stud-of-a-man image was implanted on the front of every romance novel as much as the tank-top heroine on every sci-fi and vampire fighting novel. All of this was done at low risk or no risk to them. Their statistical data proved that romance readers loved bare chested studs and teenaged girls dreamed of being a tank top girl.
For the new breed of creators… people like us, we embrace risk and breaking the mold. We’re here to create, be heard, and to share. We’re at the bottom and we know this. We are the ones that they turn down. We are the ones with poetry as chaotic as the tales we tell. We are the ones willing to sell our creations for 99 cents to 5 bucks. We are the ones that they fear and can’t stop. They will continue to attack eBooks and us in order to regain control.
They can try. We won’t stop. We will continue to write and create as long as…
Ebooks continue to sell!!
-Omen
A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that Apple had illegally conspired with five of the six biggest publishers to try to raise prices in the budding e-books market.
The decision came two days after Barnes & Noble lost its chief executive and said it would not appoint another, signaling that the biggest chain of physical bookstores could be immediately broken up.
-----
This is MONUMENTAL!!! This means that the Big-Boys of old will have to deal with the small people in the world that don't WANT to sell their eBooks at a high price, knowing that it will SIGNIFICANTLY decrease the chances of customer purchases.
For a young start-up publishing company, introducing new authors, this is priceless!! They can offer their products at $2.99 or $4.99 which is FAR more affordable to a reader looking to try something different, as compared to $12.99 or $14.99.
If the higher priced was forced on small publishing houses, opportunities would be lost as customers would stay with the titles and companies they know, for the $14.99 that they would be spending.
You see… the secret of eBooks is that they cater more to STORYTELLING rather than the fierceness of book sales. The Big-Boys depend on book sales to continue their livelihood.
A new writer, simply wants to share their story with the world.
If a new writer could supplement their income with the sharing of their creations, most would gladly quit their jobs. I’m not talking about getting filthy rich, I’m talking about making as much or a little bit more than their making now, but know that they have people all of the world that are fans of their creations.
These are the people that eBooks serve most and best. The Big-Boys know this.
They couldn’t stop them when eBooks first appeared. Amazon jumped on it and began selling them on their site as fast as they could. It was an excellent strategic move.
The Big-Boys launched a massive marketing campaign and tried their best to discredit this new wilderness of creativity by spotlighting poor editing, garbage designs, inexperienced storytelling, broken concepts, and shoddy presentations from the products.
And yet… eBooks continued to sell!
Small publishing houses were created by teachers, out-of-work journalists, editors, and BELIEVERS, as they organized to help Storytellers to get their creations out to the world by cleaning up their ‘works’. The editors edited, the teachers taught, the artists drew, and the believers had faith.
Ebooks continued to sell!!
The Big-Boys wanted to control the industry by using risk as their guide. They specialized in regurgitating the same type of stories, because they knew that they sold. For every ‘Twilight’ book, there were tons of similar products rushed to the shelves by the Big-Boys along assignments shoved down their contracted author’s throats to create more and more books that were just like it.
The bare chested stud-of-a-man image was implanted on the front of every romance novel as much as the tank-top heroine on every sci-fi and vampire fighting novel. All of this was done at low risk or no risk to them. Their statistical data proved that romance readers loved bare chested studs and teenaged girls dreamed of being a tank top girl.
For the new breed of creators… people like us, we embrace risk and breaking the mold. We’re here to create, be heard, and to share. We’re at the bottom and we know this. We are the ones that they turn down. We are the ones with poetry as chaotic as the tales we tell. We are the ones willing to sell our creations for 99 cents to 5 bucks. We are the ones that they fear and can’t stop. They will continue to attack eBooks and us in order to regain control.
They can try. We won’t stop. We will continue to write and create as long as…
Ebooks continue to sell!!
-Omen
