BearLion wrote:
THis is where I'm at. I have the first two which I haven't read...should I jump on the third? What if I don't even life the first two? Ha ha, decisions decisions (though I will probably buy it).
That's the definition of "low risk". 
If you don't like them, you may not be the only person in the world who doesn't, but you'll have a tough time finding the other one.
Go for it -- you'll kick yourself harder later if you pass now. 
I just took a few minutes from the Coldplay concert that I'm watching in 60 inches of HD splendor to write to Stuart Appelbaum, the flack identified as contact on the Random House press release, to tell him how much I think their decision SUCKS!!!!!
A huge sacrifice, I know, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
I appreciate the heads-up. I just reviewed my borrowed-from-the-library list to check for Random House titles I liked enough to own. I bought them (there were two). If those two ebooks go to list price tomorrow, buying them tonight saved me over $20.00.
At times like this, I have real difficulty wrestling with my usual "hey, the publishers have a right to make money, too" stance. Defending shortsightedness is so tiring! 
Ya_Ya wrote:
So, does this mean that the rest won't be bowing out of the Agency Model on 4/1/11, or is this a response to the Apple debacle pulling the apps from the iPad? Is this because once everyone else's apps are pulled the only way to reach the iPad set will be through iBooks and Random House thinks the iPad set is a big enough market to need to fold? Or has it been so good for the other five that six had to join, too?
The same questions I have.
My guess is that it is related to Apple's killing of the other e-reader apps. iBookstore only carries Agency Model titles, so if Random House wants to keep being available on iPad/iPhone/iPod, they'll need to toe the Agency Model line.
As for why now instead of June: everyone is expecting that tomorrow, Apple will unveil the iPad 2. Since RH has to make the switch anyway, it might as well switch now and get into iBookstore before iPad 2 hits the shelves.
And yeah, I think this is a huge signal that the Agency Model is not only going to continue beyond April 1, but will probably spread throughout the rest of the e-book publishing industry. The walls have been breached, and the castle is lost.
Them's my guesses. 
BrandieC wrote:@ABthree:
Actually, BearLion won't have to look far for someone else who didn't like the first of the trilogy enough to even consider reading the second and third installments.
I thought I couldn't get through #1 because I'd seen the movies first - because EVERYONE loves them. Maybe I'm just in the (weird) minority who doesn't.
(Weird said with all the affection in the world, of course. )
