Consumer here. What I don't like about this absurd per-megabyte price is that it discourages authors from including quality pictures in their books.
This finally explains why the Kindle version of some books I've bought were garbage. In particular, I was enormously disappointed with Lonely Planet books - the maps are poor quality and split out among several pages so it's almost impossible to find anything. It was a terrible mistake not to buy the PDF.
Between the awful maps in Lonely Planet and the absurd number of OCR glitches in Modern Times, I've spent my last Kindle dollar.
Completely agree on this. Moreover, the price of a Kindle book is often HIGHER than for the printed version, which is outrageous, especially because of the poor quality of the layout of many kindle books layouts.
This finally explains why the Kindle version of some books I've bought were garbage. In particular, I was enormously disappointed with Lonely Planet books - the maps are poor quality and split out among several pages so it's almost impossible to find anything. It was a terrible mistake not to buy the PDF.
Between the awful maps in Lonely Planet and the absurd number of OCR glitches in Modern Times, I've spent my last Kindle dollar.