Torchwood

[bunn]

Not sure how I feel about our ludicrous one-sided extradition treaty with the USA now being a pop culture reference. Mind you if it is all down to aliens, that would at least be some sort of explanation for the damn thing.

On the other hand : Yay!  Rhossili beach!   I was going to post a photo of the hounds running there, but philmophlegm beat me to it with a photo with Gwen and Rhys's house in the background. 

This means that philmophlegm, despite his air of elaborate scorn for all things canine -  has posted, unprompted, a photo of a doggy. Bwahahahahahaha!

... and another thing, the Kindle version of A Dance with Dragons is 20p more expensive than the print copy.  Surely paper is more expensive than bandwidth? Or is it purely lack of competition?

Comments

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Book pricing has very little to do with manufacturing costs. I'm told that the cost of manufacturing a novel in hardback form is only tens of pence more than manufacturing it in paperback form. The type of people who read ebooks may very well be prepared to pay a premium for convenience.

(Oh, and I feel the need to post this with a cat userpic to offset the dogness of that post.)

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I know, but tens of pence is what I'm talking about here!

I'd see the idea behind making the Kindle edition the same price as the hardback (valuebased pricing) but why 20p more? It seems odd! What's the 20p for?

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Because you get to have it in a more convenient format rather than having to lug around a brick. To many people, the kindle format will be better than the brick format, so on that basis they would presumably be willing to pay more for it.