[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by harryE123

this is a shame, hardcover books are better. As well as being beautiful. I love my hardcovers.

I love mine, too, but "better" is a highly subjective opinion.

The written word is being cheapened. Ebooks should be given free with hardcovers, not pimped at inordinate amounts of money without the option to at least buy the hardcover in a discounted price too.

Dream on. Not all books get issued as hardcovers. The majority are still likely to see first publication as a mass market paperback. Do you believe ebooks should be given free with those, too?

And "inordinate amounts of money" is a considerable overstatement. The majority of the costs of producing a book occur before it reaches the stage of being published, in paper or electronic form. Costs of printing, binding, warehousing and distribution are at most 20% of the budget of the average book. There's a lot of wishful thinking on how cheap an ebook can be and still make money.

There are publishers with exaggerated ideas of how much they can charge for an ebook, but that will be self-correcting. Charge too much for something and people won't buy it.

I am glad so many people steal the living copyright daylights off of the publishers on the web. I am sorry for the authors of course, but they could exert their pressure too instead of being pushed around by publishers.

Just what pressure do you think they could exert? Unless you are an international best seller like Steven King or John Grisham, you don't have any pressure to apply. You need the publisher far more than it needs you.

Stealing the living copyright daylights off of the publishers also steals from the authors you claim to be sorry for.

Will be interesting to see libraries disappearing from homes, what a shame.

Does the fact that I have something over 4,000 ebooks on several different devices mean I don't have a library in my home? (I probably have at least that many paper books, but I'd still have a library if they didn't exist.)
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Dennis