If a reward is publicly offered, a reasonable person would expect to receive that reward on completion of the task. If you don't want to risk paying out a reward, don't offer one.
I'd also expect a sensible person to keep backups of data he values at more than $1 million.
Baen's done a number of hardcover books shipping with CDs containing dozens of free ebooks. When I bought the hardcover copy of War Of Honor back in '02, it came with a CD containing all the other Honor Harrington books up until then, and about two dozen other ebooks.
There are maybe five other science fiction series I probably wouldn't have taken a chance on (and purchased books from) without that CD.
The ePubs are digitally watermarked, and downloadable only eight times, but if you pull off a successful download, you can put it on as many devices as you have access to, at least, that's how I read the PaidContent article.
Admittedly, not as easily as buying it in the iBook store or the Kindle store. And there's the whole potential "If we find your copy out for share, we'll retaliate against you" angle.
I imagine iTunes gets ranked lowly because Apple doesn't want you searching for music through Google. Apple wants you searching for music through iTunes apps or desktop applications, and everything about the iTunes web presence points to that.
If they aren't already available, I imagine third-party queue-management apps that autoqueue a movie when it becomes available on Netflix will exist within a week or two.
They probably already exist, though, so they'll just become more popular.
Better yet, stores should charge admission, and credit the admission fee towards any item purchased in the store. That way, people who enter the store and say "Just looking" still pay for the service the store provides -- a fair and equitable arrangement.
Also, the bar code exists to help the bookstore. I doubt it's worth the time and expense for the local bookstore to cover up the ISBN and bar code of every book they have. They'd aso have to change their POS software to deal with whatever it is they use to track the books instead of the bar code.
I'd guess loss to be small. If you're the type of person to enter a bookstore and use an Amazon app to get an instant price comparison on a book, you're probably the type of person who would have checked Amazon first on most books you were planning to buy.
The app primarily makes it easier for you to do so on an impulse-buy book. But an impulse-buy book, at least for me, is a book I want right now, not one I want two business days or more from now.
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Back in 2011, I made a tongue-in-cheek comment suggesting bookstores charge admission to milk the "just-looking" customers.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111214/06322517083/local-bookstores-call-boycott-amazon-advertising-their-prices.shtml#c1087
I didn't actually think there'd be stores insane enough to do it.
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If a reward is publicly offered, a reasonable person would expect to receive that reward on completion of the task. If you don't want to risk paying out a reward, don't offer one.
I'd also expect a sensible person to keep backups of data he values at more than $1 million.
I don't know about you, but if someone had told me not to roundhouse kick snapping turtles in the face when I was young, I'd still have two feet.
Baen's done it quite a few times.
Baen's done a number of hardcover books shipping with CDs containing dozens of free ebooks. When I bought the hardcover copy of War Of Honor back in '02, it came with a CD containing all the other Honor Harrington books up until then, and about two dozen other ebooks.
There are maybe five other science fiction series I probably wouldn't have taken a chance on (and purchased books from) without that CD.
Re: But ... but ... but ... piracy!
The ePubs are digitally watermarked, and downloadable only eight times, but if you pull off a successful download, you can put it on as many devices as you have access to, at least, that's how I read the PaidContent article.
Admittedly, not as easily as buying it in the iBook store or the Kindle store. And there's the whole potential "If we find your copy out for share, we'll retaliate against you" angle.
I imagine iTunes gets ranked lowly because Apple doesn't want you searching for music through Google. Apple wants you searching for music through iTunes apps or desktop applications, and everything about the iTunes web presence points to that.
I think it was Cory Doctorow who said "Anyone who thinks any kind of DRM can protect an eBook has never met a typist."
If they aren't already available, I imagine third-party queue-management apps that autoqueue a movie when it becomes available on Netflix will exist within a week or two.
They probably already exist, though, so they'll just become more popular.
Re: Re: Are you idiots really this blind?
Better yet, stores should charge admission, and credit the admission fee towards any item purchased in the store. That way, people who enter the store and say "Just looking" still pay for the service the store provides -- a fair and equitable arrangement.
Also, the bar code exists to help the bookstore. I doubt it's worth the time and expense for the local bookstore to cover up the ISBN and bar code of every book they have. They'd aso have to change their POS software to deal with whatever it is they use to track the books instead of the bar code.
I'd guess loss to be small. If you're the type of person to enter a bookstore and use an Amazon app to get an instant price comparison on a book, you're probably the type of person who would have checked Amazon first on most books you were planning to buy.
The app primarily makes it easier for you to do so on an impulse-buy book. But an impulse-buy book, at least for me, is a book I want right now, not one I want two business days or more from now.