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Re: E Book Price War Starts in Earnest

From: Brian Taves <briantaves1879~at~yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:35:44 -0700 (PDT)
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Are any of the good translations in e-book form?  I was assuming they had taken from PG.

Brian Taves



From: Harry Hayfield <harryhayfield~at~googlemail.com>
Subject: E Book Price War Starts in Earnest
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Date: Monday, June 21, 2010, 7:20 PM



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It is being reported this evening (CET) that Amazon is to reduce the price of it's Kindle e-book reader to $189 (€153/£128) from the orginal starting price of $259 (€210/£175) in response to Barnes and Noble reducing the price of it's Nook Wi-Fi system to $149 (€121/£101). According to Amazon (admittedly, a biased source), the average download rate for a work of Verne's from their site is one every 18 hours. Do the forum think that this price war will help get more of Verne's work into an electronic format (be it on iPhone, iPad or e-book readers) and if so, should the various sequels or follow ups published since also be given an electronic version as well?
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