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To highlight the untold level of harm Apple caused, I now realise this event stopped me reading for years. I loved ebooks and my reading went way up. They were
by Fluorescence 3y ago
To highlight the untold level of harm Apple caused, I now realise this event stopped me reading for years.
I loved ebooks and my reading went way up. They were cheaper than paperbacks and cheap enough that I was making curiosity and impulse purchases. The problem with digital sales is that unlike a bookshop, I could not browse and take a book from the shelf and start reading and get hooked.
Once ebooks suddenly jumped in price and absurdly became more expensive than paperbacks, I was done, and didn't buy a book for years. You might try and argue this was irrational, but when I feel I am being scammed, my wallet stays in my pocket. I will indeed cut off my nose to spite an asshole.
- clankyclanker 3y agoAgreed, I only picked up reading again after finding Libby. (A short story about how cheating the user with exorbitant prices results in the exit of your audience.)
- marcus0x62 3y agoJobs was deeply cynical about ebooks, claiming early on that Kindle would fail because “people don’t read anymore”[0]. There’s some level of irony in the fact that the most successful product from the guy who wanted to build a “bicycle of the mind”[1] ended up being something more like the floating chairs in Wall E. 0 - https://www.wired.com/2008/01/steve-jobs-peop/ https://www.wired.com/2008/01/steve-jobs-peop/ 1 - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KmuP8gsgWb8 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KmuP8gsgWb8