{"id":285636,"date":"2011-06-17T20:53:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T20:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2011\/06\/17\/three-percent-7-ebook-pricing-and-elitism\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:45:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:45:08","slug":"three-percent-7-ebook-pricing-and-elitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2011\/06\/17\/three-percent-7-ebook-pricing-and-elitism\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Percent #7: Ebook Pricing and Elitism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s podcast centers around <a href=\"http:\/\/publishingperspectives.com\/2011\/06\/selling-ebooks-99-cents-destroys-minds\/\">this piece<\/a> about ebook pricing, which I wrote for <em>Publishing Perspectives<\/em>, and which upset approximately 70,000 self-publishing folks and fans of <a href=\"http:\/\/lethalbooks.com\/\">John Locke.<\/a> Tom and I talk about some of the issues with ebook pricing and with the impact of the $.99 price point on the value of books and way they are discovered. <\/p>\n<p>Since we reference John Locke a lot (along with Amanda Hocking, he&#8217;s one of the most successful $.99 ebook authors out there), I thought I&#8217;d post a trailer to one of his books here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"380\" height=\"237\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q0CyRB4mO5c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s music is <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/qSHHrEHesS0\">Common People<\/a> by Pulp, which is ironic and fitting and is a great song that contains a number of great line, like &#8220;cause everybody hates a tourist&#8221; and &#8220;you&#8217;ll never watch your life slide out of view, and dance and drink and screw, because there&#8217;s nothing else to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As always you can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/three-percent-podcast\/id434696686\">here<\/a>. To subscribe with other podcast downloading software, such as Google&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/listen.googlelabs.com\/\">Listen<\/a>, copy the following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?s=broadcast_3p\">link<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s podcast centers around <a href=\"http:\/\/publishingperspectives.com\/2011\/06\/selling-ebooks-99-cents-destroys-minds\/\">this piece<\/a> about ebook pricing, which I wrote for <em>Publishing Perspectives<\/em>, and which upset approximately 70,000 self-publishing folks and fans of <a href=\"http:\/\/lethalbooks.com\/\">John Locke.<\/a> Tom and I talk about some of the issues with ebook pricing and with the impact of the $.99 price point on the value of books and way they are discovered. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67446],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-three-percent-podcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335346,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285636\/revisions\/335346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}