Re: Ready to give up eBookwise...

--- In [email protected], Bill Janssen <bill@...> wrote:
>
> > Let's see - John Rhode wrote over 100 popular mystery novels between 
> > 1920 and 1965.
> > 
> > eBookwise has -- zero
> > 
> > Amazon-Kindle has -- zero
> 
> Also the topic of a great line by Dorothy Sayers in a letter to
> E. C. Bentley, where she says, ``...you [Bentley] have the enormous
> advantage over [Rhode] of knowing how to read and write''.  I've read
> a few of the Priestley books, and I'd rather watch CSI.
> 
> Bill

Well, there's no accounting for tastes -- yours or Dorothy Sayers'. At
least none of Rhode's murderers claimed to be able to kill someone by
injecting them with an air bubble.

My point is that it's hard to get excited about eBooks for $10 when
the very same books are available as second-hand paperbacks for the
same price or less. Once eBooks start to appear that AREN'T available
at a reasonable price as books, then I'll start to take an interest.
'Dr Priestley's Quest', for instance, is currently on sale via
AbeBooks for $309 and Amazon for $67.55. When THAT appears as a $10
eBook, watch my dust.

>Powells has four of his novel at $5.10 a piece, as pdfs.

Sorry, Chris -- that's RHODE not RHODES. 

Regards,

Jon.






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