Comments on: Penguin eBook Prices Are Outrageous

By: Philip

Philip — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:35:00 +0000

Ebooks are a scam. Basically authors sell their work to scam artists (paper publishers) who sell that to murdering mobster scam artists – these are ebook “publishers” (all the work is done by one 14 year old kid – same kid for all the companies). Then these people charge you money so you can hold the “book” in your hand for not more than 12 seconds. We need that iraqi long range supergun to shoot all the layers of middlemen at the same time.

Don’t think of it as an ebook. Think of it as mobster protection money.

– Not buying any ebooks until no DRM and price < 1/2 mass market

By: ‘Recession and the Penguin way’ | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:14:31 +0000

[...] Penguin was successful making good books available cheaply and everywhere in the 1930s, now is the time to think about doing the same thing with ebooks." – Hugh McGuire in the Book Oven blog. [...]

By: Recession & the Penguin Way

Recession & the Penguin Way — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:44:44 +0000

[...] me that if Penguin was successful making good books available cheaply and everywhere in the 1930s, now is the time to think about doing the same thing with ebooks. Bookmark the permalink. Trackbacks are closed, [...]

By: The eBook Tax: Some Publishers Want Hardcover Prices to Be Ebook Pricing Standard | Dear Author: Romance Book Reviews, Author Interviews, and Commentary

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:00:26 +0000

[...] began rolling out digital versions of its ebooks, it’s pricing for the ebook version was higher than the print counterpart as well. This premium pricing does not encourage ebook reading, but rather deters it and, as I said [...]

By: Pat Oddy

Pat Oddy — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:53:27 +0000

Not only are prices outrageous, but you need to beware if you do purchase a book. I bought a copy of a biography for my Palm TX a while ago. I recently had to do a hard reset of the Palm and reload all my programs. Although i could redownload my purchased Penguin ebook, I couldn’t open it without the credit card number of the card originally used to purchase it. I no longer had the card or account and am not even sure which card i used! I’ll admit maybe I should have been more careful – but I would have expected at least a reply to my query to Penguin Customer Services asking if there was a way round this. After receiving a computer-generated response saying I would have a reply in 5 working days, I’ve had nothing 14 days later. I bought this book!

By: Digital Publishers - Having Their Cake and Eating it, Too?

Digital Publishers - Having Their Cake and Eating it, Too? — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:30:01 +0000

[...] a snippet of a little rant at Dear Author about the cost of e-books at Penguin: Penguin is charging $2.00 higher for its ebook copy of a mass market paperback. An [...]

By: How to Increase E Book Pricing and Availability | Dear Author: Romance Book Reviews, Author Interviews, and Commentary

Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:30:16 +0000

[...] for a book and one of our readers, Anji, asked whether it was in ebook form. It is not. Penguin is not ready to release all of its books in ebook format and when it does release the books in ebook format, the price is [...]

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:49:11 +0000

I saw that today LinM. Is it too much to hope that all the letters to customer support made a difference?

By: LinM

LinM — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:47:02 +0000

Choke – as I scanned through the new ebooks on Fictionwise today, I noticed that many of the Penguin books have 2 prices: the original and a new price that matches the print cover price. The ebook price is still more that the deeply discounted p-book price from Amazon but what a difference a fortnight makes.

By: Tilly Greene

Tilly Greene — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:50:58 +0000

HA! It took Penguin 3 days to say:

“We appreciate the many questions, comments, suggestions, and ideas that are submitted by our readers and are happy to share them with our Editorial, Publicity, Sales and Marketing departments. Because of the volume of mail received, we cannot guarantee that you will receive a personal response; however, we will certainly forward your comments about our eBook pricing along to the appropriate individuals for review.

Thank you for taking the time to contact us”

And my query has been marked unassigned…oh yes, ebooks have “failed experiment” stamped all over it.