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April 26, 2011 06:48 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/QDqWswALl24/adobe-digital-editio.html
Adobe Digital Editions "astronomically expensive" ... but who is the customer?
Photo: Shutterstock Elliot Jay Stocks discusses Adobe's pricing model for its forthcoming Digital Editions package. The price for the add-on, which allows publishers to export iPad magazines from Adobe Creative Suite, is astronomical. 7003 per year as a minimum spend"--"irrespective of how many copies you sell, or how regularly you publish"--"and that's on top of ... the suite [which] costs 1810. That's what you'll be paying to Adobe. On top of that, there's the 30% per-download charge publishers are required to pay to Apple He notes that this effectively prices small, website-size publishers out of the market and criticizes it on that basis. His is an excellent analysis, but assumes that Adobe was interested in that kind of market to begin with. But is it?...
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