Not feeling this is fair in anyway what so ever, I emailed Steve Wright directly and brought this to his attention. He said it was "annoying and wrong", but has no direct control over the pricing scheme. So I emailed Focal Press to bring this to their attention. While I believe people should be paid for their work, charging more for a digital version just isn’t right in my opinion.
I’m waiting to hear back from Focal Press about this, but I just wanted to share my slight frustration with the matter, and hopefully some good can come from this, that can benefit a lot of us who want to carry around this handy "book", without the trouble of lugging the actual book around.
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Hello
My name is Saeed, a digital compositor of 7 years for feature films. For a
while I have wished for a way to easily carry around Steve Wright’s Digital
Compositing Book for Film and Video around with me without the added bulk of
a book. Now with the ipad, and kindle app, this can now become a reality.
The knowledge, and easy to access reference of Steve Wright’s knowledge, in
an easy to carry tablet, is a wonderful thought. However I am put off by
your pricing structure on the digital version of your book.
The regular paperback edition sells for 37.77 on Amazon. The digital kindle
edition sells for 47.96. A difference of ten dollars, and it doesn’t even
come with the DVD. I am curious to know why this pricing difference exist,
and wanted to let you know that I don’t find it fair to pay more for a
digital copy of any medium. While I’m not expecting the price of the book to
be vastly cheaper, I was hoping it to be, at the very least, the same price
as the paperback edition.
I really want to make this purchase, but I cannot pull the trigger due to
the principles of the issue at hand.
Thank you for your time.
-Saeed
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