Wired has a couple interesting Ebook Stories today.
Steven King has Doubled the price of his ebook \”The Plant\”, ok, so it\’s only 2 bucks now, but that\’s a 100% increase! Holy Inflation Batman.
A more interesting part of the same page is on The University of Virginia Library\’s Electronic Text Center. They made 1,200 of thier 55,000 online texts available online for free. Two Months later, 753,922 copies of those e-books have been downloaded. But it gets more interesting….
Wired has a couple interesting Ebook Stories today.
Steven King has Doubled the price of his ebook \”The Plant\”, ok, so it\’s only 2 bucks now, but that\’s a 100% increase! Holy Inflation Batman.
A more interesting part of the same page is on The University of Virginia Library\’s Electronic Text Center. They made 1,200 of thier 55,000 online texts available online for free. Two Months later, 753,922 copies of those e-books have been downloaded. But it gets more interesting….Some of the most popular titles have been Aesop\’s Fables, War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells, and Darwin\’s Origin of Species, Alice in Wonderland was downloaded over 4,000 times. The center\’s director, David Seaman, was quoted as saying something very interesting…
\”This is not business as usual anymore. You have to be open to letting the markets teach you. We\’re curious about subscription services, lending fees, and prices of, say, a penny, or a dime, or even a dollar,\”
A library talking about lending fees. Is this the future of libraries, or atleast academic libraries?
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