I keep seeing this "hardback vs paperback", and it's just silly to me, of course I don't think you should get a free paperback after buying the hardback....but do I think you should get a free ebook for purchasing yes...it doesn't cost them ANYTHING to produce! And as long as the publishers are going to make the prices of their ebooks just about the same as paperbacks (when they are released in paperback), then I'll go to the net and find my book. I've given the publisher their money buying the hardback/paperback. I'm not going to give it to them again because I want a scanned copy.
The ebooks add NOTHING to the content of the original book. If they did, then that would be a different story.
It's like paying $1.50 for a 20oz soda over $1 for a 2-liter because it's more convenient.
It's like the DVD/Blu-Ray distributors right now giving away free mobile formatted copies with the DVD.
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