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Originally Posted by rlauzon
Well, let's pick a book from Simonsays: Cell by Stephen King. Normally priced at $15, on sale for $9.
Looking up the same book at Amazon.com, it's $17.80 - granted hard cover. Let's estimate half for softcover - $8.90.
So the price of Simonsays for an eBook is the same as the price for a paper book. The price of a non-transferrable, non-portable item is the same price as a transferrable, portable item.
This does not make sence no matter how you cut it.
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You are comparing the ebook of the hardcover to an uinreleased paperback. The question will be how much is the ebook going to cost once the paperback is out. That's the real issue. $17.80 for the hardcover and $8.90 for the ebook. That seems fair to me. And you get the ebook now and can read it when you want. Now that the paperback is out at $9.99 retail, the $8.90 price is too high. With the discounts you can sometimes get via being a preferred reader or email coupons, you can get the paperback for less then the cost of the ebook. So now that the paperback is out, forget the ebook. It was a decent price when only the hardcover was available.