Piotr Lipinski: KINDLE UNLIMITED, or the Poles again better – Spider’s Web

Why invented ebooks? The answer may be surprising: not in order to more easily piratować book. I know – the world is still amazing.

The real reasons are two. Number one: to suitcases were lighter. Number two: we show the Americans that we are better.

first reason is fairly obvious to anyone who reads on vacation (by the way bad boys – you’ll see soon get back to hard work!). Since the summer we have more free time, usually not enough for us one book. Unless you’re Lech Walesa, because he has this one, he needed to read in childhood. Thanks to reader e-books do not have to pay at the airport for overweight luggage (ebooks, unfortunately, does not help on your overweight, this requires a diet). Plain and simple as automatic transmission, which is sufficient to know a few letters of the alphabet.

But the second reason is more complex. I used to write in Spider’sWeb that we are better than the Americans, now I add that it is also faster. Recently, the U.S. Amazon showed off his bicycle e-books, called the Kindle Unlimited. I also attraction. In Poland, have long runs this rental and called Legimi.

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Unlimited for now applies only to the U.S. market. It reminds bauble of Christmas trees. Sparkling with thousands of colors. From the outside pretty. In the middle of the almost empty.

less than ten bucks American can choose from 600,000 titles! So Legimi can not hide, because offering only 5,000 titles. But as usual there is a “but”.

This” but “great wypunktował Robert Drózd in your world readers, the most popular in Poland ebookach blog. With its comparison shows that, in fact, offer Legimi is more interesting than Amazon.

Americans in the press release about the start of the Kindle Unlimited boast antiques. Indicates that readers can read in the subscription of Harry Potter, “The Lord of the Rings”, “The Hunger Games”. Offer for newborns? Elders have rather read these books. This popular and good items. Except that the second freshness, like the heroes say Bulgakov.

Next is even less: “Sesame Street”, “Animal Farm”, “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Great literary, worse when it comes to the release date. Books Although age does not lose value, but certainly for freshness.

Meanwhile Legimi tempting real news: translations of the titles King, Murakami, Coben. Marxists believed that the number of passes in quality. Fortunately, thanks to this approach, the Soviet Union collapsed. And it was a clash of the quantity and quality we have, at least at first glance, when comparing offers and Legimi Amazon.

Of course, anyone can do your own comparison and may he come out, it would be better for him falls Amazon. And I’m just glad that something of ours, Polish, Masovian fragrant meadow turned out to be better than the American hamburger fast food. (Maybe this meadow has nothing to do with it, but it sounds nice, and sometimes literature is not about to be wise, just beautiful).

Legimi The biggest drawback is that we miss the Deals for the Kindle reader. But hardly have resented a giraffe that does not fly. Amazon reader on your letterhead will not let any competition and “what you do to me?”, As the film was telling a cloakroom.

several years, watching with great interest to our e-book market. Initially anxiously whether ebooks at all with us adopt. Later, the joy that comes of readers, but not so fast, I expect.

still a niche. Two years ago the author could expect that sales of e-books 1-2 percent compared to the printed edition. Today, the best relationship I had heard, it’s 20 percent. Although such a high percentage of it is rather an exception.

Publishers are still experimenting with ways to sell. Some think the paper book for premium goods, so the ebook they release a month later. So he decided publisher for my book, “Genius and pigs.” Others use it as an outpost, so it was a case of “Anthology of Polish reportage 100/XX” which also was my text, which was published as an ebook earlier than the paper version.

By the way, I noticed an interesting phenomenon , which rarely speaks. Some publishers are afraid of losing control over the book.

selling ebooks on the Internet bookstore are never absolutely certain that this will settle with them honestly and not zaniży number of copies. The case is based on trust. Publishers puff on a cold, because no one has ever accused anyone canting. Do not forget, however, that it is worth podmuchać on frozen hands, sometimes it gets from the warmer.

It is, of course, remember that “przewały” there were also a paper book market. Because, for example, smart printers something himself commissioned next effort, have printed on the side and let go into circulation. Or publishers themselves do not fully able to settle with the agents of foreign writers to the number of books sold. That’s why once on the books appeared as holograms on CD.

Today Polish market e-book reader market by far. Publishers are fighting for a digital reader, because this is still a rarity as a boy in the class of nurses.

We have quite a few exciting promotions, but less often at prices below 10 gold, as even at times a year ago. Very low price is good for the readers only in the short run. In the long term, “wykasowałaby ‘many publications and by many authors. Books do not come from nothing. Books come from money. And if anyone still believes that ebooks are too expensive, it has a serious problem, probably will never be cheap enough for him.

From the point of view of an ebook publisher is not extraordinary miracle. You can save the cost of paper and printing, but despite appearances, they are the largest components of the price that appears on the cover. The work of the author, editors, graphic designers costs the same as in the paper, which in the ebook. And finally the most and so earns the distributor.

One of the major advantages of the Polish market of e-books is wieloformatowość. Polish bookshops sell ebooks in the format “mobi”, adapted for reading on the Kindle, the “epub”, which is suitable for example for Apple’s iPad app and outdated “pdf” that looks good on the computer.

O such a thing can only dream of Amazon customers, doomed only to “mobi”. I honestly have to admit that in general they do not care. Though he never heard the word “mobi”, no problem reading ebooks.

But by the time the season! Great to live in a comfortable ecosystem. At least until hell it will not. And if Amazon goes bankrupt? There is no way anyone will tell. Sure, the Roman Empire also lasted forever. The digital story of the past two decades shows that even the greatest fall, if only they smell not a new trend.

So what happens to amazonowymi ebookami if the company goes bankrupt? Is the book will remain only readers who will get older, and eventually they will fall digital death along with our collection?

Wieloformatowość protects against such dilemmas. Our eBooks are not tied neither to any bookstore, or to any device. And very well. The book is not a dog on a chain.

Piotr Lipinski – reporter, photographer and filmmaker. He writes for a change of history and modern technologies. Author of several books, including “George unclear” and “Report Rzepecki”. Published in “Gazeta Wyborcza”, “On the cross-country”, “Politics”. Multi-awarded by the Association of Polish Journalists and nominated for the “Press”. Winner of the President of the Polish Filmmakers Association for the documentary “What happened to the Polish Bill Gates.” NaPiotrLipinski.pl blogs. Jokes on Twitter @ PiotrLipinski. New book “Genius and pigs” – by Jack Karpinski, outstanding informatyku, who in the PRL bred pigs – in both paper and e-books.

All photos are taken from the site Shutterstock.

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