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Seeley Senior Member Offline Posts: 352 Location: UK Joined: 04/03/10	Re: The Cost of Electronic Chess Books Reply #5 - 04/08/14 at 12:19:05	Post Tools	Print Post
	Trefor wrote on 04/08/14 at 08:04:01: I understand the point regarding Everyman CBH and PGN of course, but this isn't available on the kindle format yet the price is no cheaper. I was just curious Well, I suppose it's a question of the publishers pricing their products according to what they think the market will bear. If people don't buy the Kindle books, preferring instead the relatively cheaper products available from other publishers, then Everyman would most likely reduce their prices. You're asking a question about business economics in general, rather than about chess publishing, I think


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GMTonyKosten YaBB Administrator Offline Mr Dynamic? Posts: 3181 Location: Clermont-Ferrand Joined: 12/19/02 Gender:	Re: The Cost of Electronic Chess Books Reply #4 - 04/08/14 at 11:11:37	Post Tools	Print Post
	Seeley wrote on 04/06/14 at 12:26:04: the extra work involved at the publisher's end. Yes, producing the playable CBV eBooks takes a lot of extra work, while producing Acrobat or Kindle versions of a document is a question of a couple of seconds.


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Trefor YaBB Newbies Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 27 Joined: 10/25/13	Re: The Cost of Electronic Chess Books Reply #3 - 04/08/14 at 08:04:01	Post Tools	Print Post
	I understand the point regarding Everyman CBH and PGN of course, but this isn't available on the kindle format yet the price is no cheaper. I was just curious


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Gorath Senior Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 259 Joined: 07/09/09	Re: The Cost of Electronic Chess Books Reply #2 - 04/07/14 at 20:25:45	Post Tools	Print Post
	Gambit publishes mainly back catalog titles in electronic form while Everyman also releases new books quickly as CBH and PGN. Quality Chess made a deal with the people behind an app called Forward Chess. It seems there are still technical problems.


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Seeley Senior Member Offline Posts: 352 Location: UK Joined: 04/03/10	Re: The Cost of Electronic Chess Books Reply #1 - 04/06/14 at 12:26:04	Post Tools	Print Post
	In the case of the Everyman e-books, the games and variations can be played through on your computer screen (using Chessbase or similar software), which can't be done with a Kindle book. I'd guess the higher relative price of the Everyman books reflects the extra convenience this offers to readers, and also the extra work involved at the publisher's end.


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Trefor YaBB Newbies Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 27 Joined: 10/25/13	The Cost of Electronic Chess Books 04/06/14 at 09:18:41	Post Tools	Print Post
	I have recently purchased a few electronic chess books - mainly to read at work (When at lunch I should add) whilst listening to music I have noticed that ebooks from publishers such as Gambit and NIC seem to be considerably cheaper than the printed versions but ebooks from Everyman don't follow this trend They are in general only very slightly less expensive than the 'real' versions - is there a good reason for this, other than profit margins? I can't comment on Quality Chess, because sadly, I don't think they have any kindle friendly books Kind regards Trefor I did ask this question on the ECF forum but for me that is a very strange place full of grade snobbery and with a disturbing clique mentality Edit: I should add that I have just downloaded the March 2014 BCM which is not only a good read but free using the kindle library


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