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Old 08-25-2010, 12:55 AM   #31
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I think the price of ebooks are forcing people to the darkside. Books should be like songs - make a good book cheap to download and nobody would go to the darkside. You don't mind paying if it's not over the top.
Publishers may be completely off-base on their current pricing ideas for eBooks, and may be totally overestimating the value/worth of eBooks to the average consumer. They may very well have to cut prices if they expect eBooks to truly take off in the market.

But again, I don't see what greedy pricing schemes have to do with "forcing people to the darkside".

I guess I just don't buy the "it's too expensive, so I'm forced into getting it for free" thing as a rationale.


As an aside, you mentioned as cheap as songs- and yeah, I never found Amazon/Apple's .99/song to be expensive at all-but I'm sure many people do...and I definitely know that when it first was brought up people were up in arms about it
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