Comments on: Are Pirate-site Downloaders Better Than Muggers, Pickpockets and Shoplifters? This Victim Doesn’t Think So http://ereads.com/2009/04/are-pirate-site-downloaders-better-than.html Read the latest publishing news and provocative blogs by top commentators in the traditional and digital publishing fields. Mon, 21 May 2012 03:15:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: ShojoBakunyu http://ereads.com/2009/04/are-pirate-site-downloaders-better-than.html/comment-page-1#comment-8763 ShojoBakunyu Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:46:34 +0000 http://ereadsdev.com/?p=546#comment-8763 You are correct, except for the fact that many many many people that illegally download eBooks are doing so because the people that are selling YOUR BOOK are not selling them for $2.99 each... They're selling them for $24.99 each... They are selling eBooks, which don't have overhead costs like utilities, property costs, payroll, shipping, manufacturing/printing, etc. that the Physical Stores do, for MORE than the same book costs AT A PHYSICAL STORE. Why is it that I can buy a book on Amazon.com for $24.99 OR buy the same book in paper format at Barns & Noble for $12.99? And that's for NEW books in hard cover... BN.com sells the same book for $24.99 in eBook Format that they are selling ON THE SAME SITE for $8.99 for paperback or, if I wait a month or two, for $3.99 for a paperback. If you want people to stop stealing money from your pocket, you and your fellow authors need to stop the rape of your customers by refusing to sell eBooks at the same price scale as the physical books. We all KNOW it is a scam when they are selling an ebook kept on a server somewhere for 4X the cost of the copy that requires: 1. Materials, Printing, Binding, & Processing. (Employees, Utilities, Machinery, Taxes, etc.) 2. Shipment from the manufacturer to a distribution facility. (Employees, Utilities, Taxes, Machinery, Drivers, Brokers, Trucks, Trailers, Fuel.) 3. Storage at a distribution facility. (Employees, Utilities, Machinery, Taxes, etc.) 4. Shipping from Distribution Center to Stores. (Employees, Utilities, Taxes, Machinery, Drivers, Brokers, Trucks, Trailers, Fuel.) 5. Stores. (Employees, Utilities, Machinery, Taxes, etc.) And they may not sell all their physical copies for months or YEARS so that is Inventory Costs that eBook sellers don't need to cope with because they just keep copying the same goddamned file over and over and over again. Talk to your publishers and distributors about lowering the cost of eBook Files and it won't be necessary to pirate eBooks, your sales would skyrocket, and you'll make up for all you've lost due to Publisher/Distributor GREED. You are correct, except for the fact that many many many people that illegally download eBooks are doing so because the people that are selling YOUR BOOK are not selling them for $2.99 each… They’re selling them for $24.99 each… They are selling eBooks, which don’t have overhead costs like utilities, property costs, payroll, shipping, manufacturing/printing, etc. that the Physical Stores do, for MORE than the same book costs AT A PHYSICAL STORE.

Why is it that I can buy a book on Amazon.com for $24.99 OR buy the same book in paper format at Barns & Noble for $12.99? And that’s for NEW books in hard cover… BN.com sells the same book for $24.99 in eBook Format that they are selling ON THE SAME SITE for $8.99 for paperback or, if I wait a month or two, for $3.99 for a paperback.

If you want people to stop stealing money from your pocket, you and your fellow authors need to stop the rape of your customers by refusing to sell eBooks at the same price scale as the physical books.

We all KNOW it is a scam when they are selling an ebook kept on a server somewhere for 4X the cost of the copy that requires:

1. Materials, Printing, Binding, & Processing.
(Employees, Utilities, Machinery, Taxes, etc.)

2. Shipment from the manufacturer to a distribution facility. (Employees, Utilities, Taxes, Machinery, Drivers, Brokers, Trucks, Trailers, Fuel.)

3. Storage at a distribution facility. (Employees, Utilities, Machinery, Taxes, etc.)

4. Shipping from Distribution Center to Stores. (Employees, Utilities, Taxes, Machinery, Drivers, Brokers, Trucks, Trailers, Fuel.)

5. Stores. (Employees, Utilities, Machinery, Taxes, etc.)

And they may not sell all their physical copies for months or YEARS so that is Inventory Costs that eBook sellers don’t need to cope with because they just keep copying the same goddamned file over and over and over again.

Talk to your publishers and distributors about lowering the cost of eBook Files and it won’t be necessary to pirate eBooks, your sales would skyrocket, and you’ll make up for all you’ve lost due to Publisher/Distributor GREED.

]]> By: RowenaBCherry http://ereads.com/2009/04/are-pirate-site-downloaders-better-than.html/comment-page-1#comment-592 RowenaBCherry Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:11:06 +0000 http://ereadsdev.com/?p=546#comment-592 Well done for sharing your story. <br /><br />Have you also been ripped off on EBay or any of the other auction sites?<br /><br />An EBay vendor told me today that EBay employees are telling would-be vendors of ebooks that it's fine to sell private collections of authors' ebooks as long as the vendor burns the collection onto a CD.<br /><br />When innocent readers pay good money for CDs and emailed .pdfs from auction sites, those are real, actual, quantifiable sales that have been stolen from the authors and their agents. Well done for sharing your story.

Have you also been ripped off on EBay or any of the other auction sites?

An EBay vendor told me today that EBay employees are telling would-be vendors of ebooks that it's fine to sell private collections of authors' ebooks as long as the vendor burns the collection onto a CD.

When innocent readers pay good money for CDs and emailed .pdfs from auction sites, those are real, actual, quantifiable sales that have been stolen from the authors and their agents.

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