{"id":416,"date":"2020-11-22T14:03:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T19:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/?p=416"},"modified":"2020-11-22T14:03:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T19:03:19","slug":"this-is-why-i-have-a-kindle-over-10-list-for-kindle-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"This is why I have a &#8220;Kindle Over $10&#8221; list  for Kindle books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The fact that paperback and sometimes hardcover books are cheaper than ebooks is just wrong.  The costs of distribution are negligible for ebooks.<br><br>When I see an ebook that I like (that isn&#8217;t time sensitive) and it is over $10, I put it in a list that I have on Amazon.  I periodically revisit the list to see if anything has dropped below $10.  The good news is that sometimes they do.  The bad news is that sometimes I no longer care &#8211; so the publisher and author lose out on the revenue from me forever.<br><br>Note: My wife and I have over 700 ebooks in our library &#8211; we are power buyers.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/culture\/2019\/12\/23\/20991659\/ebook-amazon-kindle-ereader-department-of-justice-publishing-lawsuit-apple-ipad\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/culture\/2019\/12\/23\/20991659\/ebook-amazon-kindle-ereader-department-of-justice-publishing-lawsuit-apple-ipad<\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that paperback and sometimes hardcover books are cheaper than ebooks is just wrong. The costs of distribution are negligible for ebooks. When I see an ebook that I like (that isn&#8217;t time sensitive) and it is over $10, I put it in a list that I have on Amazon. I periodically revisit the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}