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It may be no surprise that the best-selling computer book so far this year is iPhone: The Missing Manual, by my colleague David
It may be no surprise that the best-selling computer book so far this year is iPhone: The Missing Manual, by my colleague David
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2015-10-21
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It may be no surprise that the best-selling computer book so far this year is iPhone: The Missing Manual, by my colleague David Pogue.
But here is something that did surprise me: The most popular edition of this book isn’t on paper or the PDF file that O’Reilly Media also sells. It is the downloadable application for the iPhone, according to Tim O’Reilly, the chief executive of O’Reilly Media.
Amid all the discussion of micropayments and other ways that the creators of news and other content can be paid for their work, the iTunes App store is shaping up to be a surprisingly viable way to sell all sorts of information and entertainment.
There is a lot more content of the sort you would have bought in the past but now you can get free on the Web: a directory of Congressional offices, standup comedy routines, gym workout videos, Zagat restaurant guides and a growing library of books. There is also a fair bit of free content, public-domain e-books like the complete works of Shakespeare and lots of advertising-supported media.(Business Week has a report this week on the App store’s role in music.)
What’s most interesting is how iPhone users are willing to spend money in ways that Web users are not.
I’ve criticized Apple from time to time for not having a coherent approach to delivering free content with advertising. But in some ways, the development of a market for paid content is a bigger and less expected achievement.
Why has this happened? Apple has created an environment that makes buying digital goods easy and common. With an infrastructure that supports one-click purchases of songs and videos, it was easy to add applications in the same paradigm. Paying for software, especially games, is not new to Apple customers. So when you see the iPhone manual or the Frommer’s Paris guidebook, it feels natural to click.(And of course, your credit card is already on file with Apple.)
There are certainly other precedents. Many people who steal songs through Lime-wire nonetheless pay $1.99 to use the same tunes as ringtones. And for avid book readers, Amazon’s Kindle has found a market willing to pay for electronic books. Apple is also starting to sell subscriptions to bundles of music, video and images from certain bands, like Depeche Mode. This is technically a product of the Music store, not the App store, but it still shows how people may be willing to pay for various bundles of content online.
There is a lot of work to do here. For example, I find the O’Reilly iPhone book a little hard to use. The text doesn’t seem particularly well-formatted for the iPhone page. And I would love to see more interactive features that utilize the phone interface(including some of David’s videos).
Andrew Savikas, O’Reilly’s vice president for digital initiatives, agrees with me, saying that the iPhone manual was rushed to get it out before Christmas. The company now has 20 titles in development for the iPhone(and eventually other mobile phones), and it is spending more time weaving in hyperlinks and adding other features.
"There is a lot more we can do to take advantage of this as a new medium," he said. O’Reilly, which sells to a lot of early adopters, has a range of digital distribution media.
"We try to say all of our writing is writing for the Web, and all of our publishing is digital publishing, so all our focus is building things into the content that make it more friendly to be digital," he said.
Before media companies rejoice that Apple has found a way to persuade a generation used to getting everything free on the Web to pay for some content, they should look a bit more closely at O’Reilly’s experience with the iPhone manual.
The book, which sells for $24.99, was initially offered as an iPhone app for $4.99. When the publisher raised the price to $9.99, sales fell 75 percent. O’Reilly quickly dropped the price back down to the lower level.
"This audience is very price sensitive," Mr. Savikas said.
So even if all content doesn’t have to be free, it may well have to be cheap.
Which of the following best explains why iPhone users are willing to pay in ways that web users are not?
选项
A、The habit of one-click purchases makes it natural to click other contents.
B、The iPhone users want to show off the convenience of their machine.
C、The iPhone users are more addicted to web resources than web users.
D、It’s far more convenient for iPhone users to download than copy from PC.
答案
A
解析
推断题为什么iPhone手机用户会乐意用互联网用户不愿意使用的方式去花钱,第七段的解释是:苹果创造了一个简易方便的购买数字化产品的环境,其用户已经养成了点击一下便能购得歌曲和视频的习惯,所以后来开发的一些应用程序在这种习惯的驱使下也很自然而然地“一点即得”。当然在“一点即得”时,信用卡上的钱也在悄悄地溜走。所以答案为[A]。
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