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Originally Posted by KunoK
I don't agree with the view that you are somehow entitled to pirate something, which you think is too expensive. That is just my view.
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We can be pragmatic or moralistic on this issue. Pragmatism might help sales, I don't think taking a moralistic stand will. The e-book market is all about convenience and pricing. Make it easy, and price the ebooks fairly and people will buy.
And for that matter, from a moralistic standpoint, why should an ebook ever be priced more than a paper copy? Sounds like pure greed to me, because the costs of that ebook are much less than the paper book (no trees used as inputs, no transportation or warehousing costs, no cut for the bookstore, and the publisher does not have to destroy unsold copies and then reimburse someone for the cost of those unsold copies).
Readers are not stupid, they know costs for ebooks are lower. High costs give incentives for piracy.