Introducing the latest in the great line of Baseball Prospectus publications…The Call-Up 2012 e-book!
Like our bestselling annual, this mid-season debut provides the latest scoops and analysis to help fans follow their favorite teams and win their fantasy leagues. The e-book highlights the most notable teams and players of the season's first half, offering over 50 new player comments by 10 of your favorite BP authors, a preface by e-book editor Ben Lindbergh, and some of the best of BP's recent online articles, as well as rest-of-season PECOTA projections for all players profiled.
In addition, for the first time ever, prospect junkies will be able to read Kevin Goldstein's updated list of top 50 prospects (with all-new commentary for each player) exclusively in a stand-alone product.
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Anything to get that extra 4 bucks out of me I guess...
If you don't want to purchase the extra e-book, you won't lose out on anything. You'll still get the same content we've always published and continue to publish.
Actually, in reality, since we've NEVER (ever) raised premium subscription prices, you really get more content for your money than ever.
That is essentially what you are doing with this silly ebook. If you are putting out more great content than ever before and need to charge more for it, I'd much rather pay an extra $5 per year and have all this great new stuff on the website.
If we didn't advertise it on the site, nobody would know the difference and everything would continue as normal. I guess I'm just trying to understand where all this concern is coming from. Buy if you want, don't if you don't. You're still getting the same content you've always paid for. That's the bottom line.
But yeah, I do wonder why I see KG's articles posted at ESPN a few days or a week before they come here, or see another tier of content for an additional $4. Also, I assume while KG is working on his list for a midseason book or a ESPN article, it could in time take away from the content here (though he does a great job keeping up so far).
Nonetheless, I'd prefer to pay $40 and get everything fresh every day. Or at least, have the option for a "super-premium" membership where I pay extra money to get any midseason releases, maybe an annual discount or a pizza feed discount, etc.
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...which came with commentary for free, is now something we have to pay a 10% premium over our subscription price to receive?
And the explanation is that it's an extension of the annual? That you've taken stuff we used to get because we subscribed for all your electronic content, and make some different kind of electronic content, and you've reduced what's received in our subscriptions, because it has something to do with the book you put out in the winter, which is an ENTIRELY different product than what is published on the website?
And the additional (non-prospect) player comments we're publishing in the book NEVER showed up on the website...ever.
So if you just want the top 50 list, you'll still get the top 50 list with the ability to comment and ask KG questions as always. This is for people who want more. That's all it is.
With each defection from your staff of major-league caliber writers I keep waiting for a falloff in quality which never happens. In its way your internal list of top 50 writing prospects must be every bit as impressive as KG's. And perhaps this move will enable you to attract them to BP and to pay them a bit more to stick around. Turn a few bucks if you can BP!
Complaints are coming from people about a new add-on - Income diversification strategy development by BP Mgmt, that costs less than half a Beer at an MLB Ballyard.
Any idea when you anticipate publishing the top 50 on the site? It might actually increase purchases. I'd like to wait and see where some of the players I'm interested in fall on the list, or to see if Kevin has some interesting disparities between his list and BA or Law list. In either case, I'd be more I'd be more inclined to buy it.
Put me in the camp of: I don't mind paying for this at all, and think it's perfectly reasonable to charge for it, but I'd rather not deal with the e-reader aspect.
/Homer
Hope that helps!
The Mac version is here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/kindle/mac/download/