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Originally Posted by JSWolf
But you knew the price would drop and chose to buy it at the higher price to get it when it was first released. When a high price eBook is released to go along with the hardcover, we have no guarantee that it will drop in price when the paperback is released. So we could be stuck with a hardcover priced eBook when there is a paperback version out there for a lot less.
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So what? If you buy the hardcover, or the high priced ebook released at the same time, the likelihood is that you are paying a premium for early access. You don't want to wait for the cheaper priced edition. If you were willing to wait for the PB/cheaper ebook, you wouldn't have bought at the higher price now.
If I buy a higher priced ebook now, it's because I want to read it
now. I'm paying extra for the privilege. I won't feel like I've been treated unfairly if the ebook price later drops. I knew that could happen going in, and I
chose not to wait till the price dropped. If I whined and bitched about it later when the price
did drop, that wouldn't be publisher greed, it would be
consumer greed, and I have little respect for either form.
And if the high priced ebook
doesn't drop in price when the ebook comes out, again, so what? I bought high originally because I wanted to read it then, not later. If it
did drop in price, I'd have no cause to complain. It was my choice to pay the higher initial price. If it
does drop, I still have no legitimate beef, because I already have the ebook, at a price I was willing to pay when I bought it.
People who
don't already have the book face the decision of whether they want the ebook badly enough to pay more than the paperback, but that's a separate question. (I will be more sympathetic to those thinking the ebook is overpriced.)
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Mind you however, some paperbacks are expensive as the publishers have switched to another scam on the public. Those nice larger sized paperbacks. The ones that are larger just so they can charge more. No wonder reading is down and sales are down. You want people to buy your product, you do not raise the price when the price they were paying is a price they were willing to pay. Not now with tough times.
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Those larger formats continue because they work. Larger formats and the same book spread over more pages by using a larger font are all efforts to let the consumer feel they are getting something for the higher price. (And the higher price is one the publisher may have no choice but to charge, if they want to
stay in business.)
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Dennis