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Originally Posted by wgrimm
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.
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Of course there is a lot of greed. But voting with your feet and buying your books from publishers and book stores who do not price ebooks higher than printed books, will also work against that greed.