Hey blog! Long time, no see.
I decided randomly, today, that I need to start blogging again. I was reading some of my posts from a few years back and man... I was just one wide-open book wasn't I?
I think that's part of the reason I haven't enjoyed this anymore. I feel like I need to constantly censor myself or perhaps my feelings on matters have become too dark and twisty? Well...
Screw. That. (Officially.)
So today I went over to the Barnes & Nobel website to see if they're going to list the next ebook in the Star Wars series I'm reading that comes out tomorrow. My wondrous mother bought me a Nook for Christmas and it has been... I don't even know if I can really express how I feel about Maggie.
Maggie, my Nook, has become something that I enjoy more than most human beings. When combined with an elliptical machine it is a freaking thing of beauty. It was like a technological device God specifically made for me.
Anyway, so, I'm looking for an ebook on the B&N website... the last 4 SW books I bought were $10, compared to the list price of $27 for the hardcover. (As an aside, why is anyone making hardcovers anymore? Durable, and nicer, and whatever... that's like, what? Fifteen trees??? Go make something useful for a third-world country or some shit.)
Today I find out that this EBOOK ("...an electronic version of a printed book which can be read on a personal computer or hand-held device designed specifically for this purpose.") was $17.00.
The price listed to buy the Hardcover version of said book via the B&N website? $16.
What... what are you ASSHATS at Barnes & Nobel thinking? Can you justify that discrepancy? Because I would just ADORE to hear it.
Are you honestly going to sit there and expect me to believe that a 3 MB text file of words costs a dollar more than a hardcover novel? No. No it does not.
You created an ebook reader, one good enough to competitively rival the Kindle, and now that people are buying your ebooks you are losing money, aren't you?
I understand the list price for this hardcover is actually $27.00, but you are giving online orders a better discount than the ebook... and I'm willing to bet that if I went into an actual store tomorrow it would cost the same as your online price.
Why do you think I bought your $260 ebook reader? I bought it for A) convenience and B) cheaper cost of books. You are destroying both of these previous perks I had desired for MANY A YEAR... and I want you to die.
If you think this is helping you monetarily in any way, shape, or form—you are mistaken—because what you are actually doing is encouraging people with Nooks or Kindles or a computer or a smartphone, to pirate these books.
So, thank you, Barnes & Nobel, for your encouragement of piracy! You kids over there are just making it so much easier for anyone and everyone to justify breaking the eighth commandment.
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