Hi guys,

I'm here at the Philippines, where can I buy it and download a pdf version. The shipping cost is 10X the book price if I order the book it self

I don't think there is a download version of the books available. I wish you good luck getting the books...they are superb.

It would be extremely beneficial to have e-book versions of all the QT books! Not only would they eliminate shipping costs and transit time, but there would be a larger profit margin as well--mo printing costs, etc. Also, it would be a great thing for me. I'm totally blind and whenever I want to read a book, I have to spend hours scanning it, recognizing the text with OCR, and then converting it into a readable form for my screen-reading software. Even then, there are sometimes still errors, and some books just don't scan well. The scanning/recognition/reading process takes many hours, over and above just reading the book. As a result, I truly hope Richard and others will seriously consider creating QT e-books!

Drawbacks: After E-book become available, sooner or later it will become available on Discussion forums/torrent sites for free. So it is not a good idea to make E-Book available. It is not expensive to buy any QT book even after paying for shipping costs.Just my thoughts.

I have been involved in internet marketing for a number of years. One of the things I have noticed is that even though most of the material is published in digital format, it doesn't hurt their business to do so.

I truly believe that actual bound books will be the exception VERY soon. I purchase digital versions of books over bound versions anytime I am given a choice. I can store many ebooks on a single CD, copy the ones I want to read to my PDA and carry that with me. I can have 20 books literally in the palm of my hand. At last count, I have over seven thousand bound books and if I could snap my finger and have them all in digital form instead, I would.

To address the theft issue - yes, it exists. But, as the internet marketing industry has learned, those that "steal" a copy of an ebook probably would not have purchased the printed book anyway. This way they are at least exposed to the material and often do end up purchasing other material from the authors. In the end, the stolen material becomes an advertisement for the publishers and ends up generating more revenue than the retail sales of the stolen material. Does it cost the publisher any more out of pocket to have a million and ten copies of their book verses a million copies? No, it doesn’t. Since there is no difference in costs, you have to compare potential revenue. As I said above, most people who steal digital copies of material would not have purchased it in the first place – often because they didn’t even know it existed.

Here is an example of one of the big publishing companies (non internet marketing) that have embraced digital publishing - they even GIVE AWAY digital copies of real books by well known authors because they understand and have proven that it’s good for business.

http://www.webscription.net

In addition, they provide FREE copies of their ebooks to disabled people (yes, LuAnn, free!) http://www.webscription.net/news.aspx?showarticle=2. This is IMHO a good aproach to doing business, and good publicity too.

This is not an advertisement. My only connection to them is that I am a happy customer and have spent plenty of money with them - far more than if they had not offered me a "taste" of the authors' work.

This trend has been picked up by the really big publishers also - McMillan, Random House, Addison-Wesley, O’Reilly and others. I used to work with an online training company and one of my duties was to liaise with the publishers to provide text books and training manuals to our student clients.

Rajan – I have to disagree with you on the shipping costs. To ship a single book within the United States using media mail is inexpensive. However, to ship that same book outside of the US is very expensive, often many times the cost of the book. In the end, the decision has to be made on how accessible the publisher wants to make their material. Is profit the overriding factor or is building a customer base more important. This isn’t limited to QT either – this question is facing all publishers as we transition from a material economy to a digital one.

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Nice post Norman. I hope the QT corporation takes your knowledge into consideration and contacts you further for guidance.

I'm still wondering if things on the computer are a good alternative for books, since their are so many pages and you are constantly in the vibrations of your computer
but that probably is different for every person

Yes, the computer has componets with crystals in them and so has vibrations. The power supply has a coil which creates a magnetic field. If you have the older TV style (CRT) monitors, their magnetic field is even stronger.

However, IMO the real question might be what is your relationship with your computer? If you have a negative emotion about the computer or electronics in general, then that might be more of an issue than the vibrations and magnetic fields created by the electronics.

From a purely physical standpoint, personal computers and other household electronics are fairly well shielded - they have to be or they would be interfering with each other. That same shielding protects us as well.

One of my most cherished past times is sitting down with a good book, in a comfortable chair with a big cup of hot tea (herbal in my case) and loosing myself in the pages. Reading on my PDA is actually more convenient as it can hold many books and I can mark the text and do searches, but it just doesn't have the same comfortable feel to it as a bound book.

However, I still stand by my earlier statements - digital media will replace almost if not all bound books, and in the very near future. Its just not ecconomically feasable to print and ship bound books in comparison to ebooks. The only hold up right now is an inexpensive and convenient ebook reader device. If they can get the price down to the $30 to $50 range, it will be all over.

Hi all,
If you are unfamiliar with Joey Korn the dowsing expert and spiritual dowser, his "dowsers prayer" can tranform the detrimental energies of computers or any electronic equipment in a few moments. (I learned about him and this prayer on THIS forum 2 over years ago! ) ) You can dowse before and after and see the clear difference. I can't recommend it enough!

And thank you Norman, for sharing your thoughts on e-publishing: I've often wondered about the profit issue for e-books. Still not sure I'm convinced (would be good to see some sturdy stats on this)

Blessings,
Alfred

Hi Everyone!

I agree with Norman also.

I thought that I left my QT book in the States, I did not, But I ordered it from QT office, and had it sent to me in Rio, it ended up costing me a bit more double. With the export?, import taxes?, and the shipping it becomes very expensive.

If the books were able to be sent electronically, there would not be the taxes collected from each country, and no shipping charges. So far,

I just bought a book yesterday, just guessing, it would cost about $10.00 in the states, but it cost 44.00 Reais. With the exchange rate, it should have cost 17.80 Reais. It was printed in the UK, so there is a lot of cost for the shipping and the taxes.

So, as soon as possible, Ebooks! Ebooks!! Ebooks!!! Ebooks!!!!!

Namaste Dennis

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Originally posted by QTdude:
Hi Everyone!

I agree with Norman also.

I thought that I left my QT book in the States, I did not, But I ordered it from QT office, and had it sent to me in Rio, it ended up costing me a bit more double. With the export?, import taxes?, and the shipping it becomes very expensive.

If the books were able to be sent electronically, there would not be the taxes collected from each country, and no shipping charges. So far,

I just bought a book yesterday, just guessing, it would cost about $10.00 in the states, but it cost 44.00 Reais. With the exchange rate, it should have cost 17.80 Reais. It was printed in the UK, so there is a lot of cost for the shipping and the taxes.

So, as soon as possible, Ebooks! Ebooks!! Ebooks!!! Ebooks!!!!!

Namaste Dennis

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Originally posted by Alberto:

quote:

Originally posted by QTdude:
Hi Everyone!

I agree with Norman also.

I thought that I left my QT book in the States, I did not, But I ordered it from QT office, and had it sent to me in Rio, it ended up costing me a bit more double. With the export?, import taxes?, and the shipping it becomes very expensive.

If the books were able to be sent electronically, there would not be the taxes collected from each country, and no shipping charges. So far,

I just bought a book yesterday, just guessing, it would cost about $10.00 in the states, but it cost 44.00 Reais. With the exchange rate, it should have cost 17.80 Reais. It was printed in the UK, so there is a lot of cost for the shipping and the taxes.

So, as soon as possible, Ebooks! Ebooks!! Ebooks!!! Ebooks!!!!!

Namaste Dennis

Dear Dennis

I'm living in Chile and I have the same problem of many people who live out of the USA or Canada. The books are not expenses the "others side effects" cost a lot more.
I know I' after three years you posted your question. Do you know actually if is there some ebook or PDF version of QT.

I really appreciate any kind of info on this matter. I also read Spanish and Portuguesses

Blessings to you
Alberto

Hi, Alberto -

There is currently no e-book, but you should e-mail the QT main office (see Contacts on the website) and tell them your concerns - maybe they'll consider producing an e-book version.