The History of Daddy Claxton

If I were Jeff Bezos or one of his high-dollar PR people from Amazon, I think I would have found a way to hold a big news conference TODAY, Jan. 26, 2010 in San Fran to announce something new and radical about the Kindle–like I was cutting it's price by 25-30 percent because I "think that everyone ought to have access to digital books and we at Amazon are paving the way to it without it costing high dollars to get there." 

Would he be losing money?  I'm sure the marketing people could have structured it so that they wouldn't have.  And this would have been a tremendous opportunity to put a huge dent in the Barnes & Noble Nook market–already struggling because they can't produce enough to keep up with their demand. 

Of course, the reason I say all this is because it is expected that tomorrow, Jan. 27, 2010, Steve Job's is going to unveil the "latest creation" in San Francisco.  All the world's tech media is in San Fran for this event.  The rest of us will be glued to an Engadet screen or various other live links tomorrow (12 noon CST) to see what the master has to say.  

This would have been a good chance for Bezos to grab some of that attention and maybe lure some people who might be thinking whatever it is Steve comes out with tomorrow it's going to be a little more than they're ready to pay, and, in the age of instant gratification, it's probably going to be late spring/early summer before any of us can stand in line to get one. 

Bezos, isn't this opportunity lost?

Talk about a missed opportunity.  I just looked at buying the Sarah Palin
eBook Going Rogue on Barnes & Noble's Web site and at buying the Kindle version on Amazon.  It's selling for $9.99 and the hard cover is available in stores as of today.  But it's not available online in an eBook form or on Kindle until Dec. 26.  I have to say, if this Nook and Kindle are going to be a success, the industry is going to have to make the product available at time of release. 

Amazon yesterday hooked me, I will confess.  They had "pre-order" pricing at $9.99 for the hardback copy.  With shipping, I got it for $12.99 and though it likely won't be here until the end of the week, life is so busy now I wouldn't have had time to read it this week anyways.  But the Amazon price is still about $5 cheaper than the B&N hardcover price of their member price of $17.39.

And even at this writing, the hard cover price at Amazon is just $14.50. 

Over on the Borders Books Web site, you can "pre-order" the book still for $15.65. 

I went looking through Google as to why it takes so long to get an eBook produced.   I didn't really get an answer, though Google did pull up an answer as to why it takes so long to backup on a Mac and then even less relevant, "How long does it take to get pregnant?"  which goes to a broken link.  I guess it took too long to come up with an answer.

Any ideas from my author friends?