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Originally Posted by mldavis2
As I posted elsewhere, eBooks do not provide the value of pBooks in terms of flexibility, durability, physical presence and obsolescence, so we should not be paying for something we don't receive from a digital copy. It's up to the market place to dictate terms, not the publishers.
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Not really following you here in terms of paying for something we don't receive from a digital copy.
I doubt any of your 'terms' above are considered by the author/publisher/whoever when setting the price of a pbook. Maybe physical presence if you look at price differences between hardcover vs. paperback - and I believe that to be a stretch.
Even if I were to concede (in fact, I'd argue the opposite, except in the case of physical presence) that a pbook meets your 'terms' better than an ebook, ebooks offer their own advantages. Advantages that a pbook absolutely cannot meet - which somewhat negates an implied argument that a pbook is worth more because it meets some subset of subjective 'terms'.