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Originally Posted by GreenMonkey
The pbacks have a 4-for-3 sale, or a few cents off, and shipped...for CHEAPER than the ebook. Ridiculous.
By buying DRM'd books at greater than or equal to paperback book is telling the publishers that:
They don't need to lower their prices under ebooks. You'll pay a premium for them.
DRM is OK.
I refuse to buy either for that reason. All you can do is speak with your $$. I've reluctantly given in on the DRM a couple of times for a couple of nonfiction history books for class, when the price differential was > 50% (i.e $12 + shipping for the used pback...$5 for the ebook). But I felt bad doing it. I try not to buy any DRM'd content for higher than the price of a rental or the same property used. That includes books, video games, etc. For books, that's like $2 or so for fiction most of the time, for XBLA games $8 tops, for DRM'd PC games (like via Steam) it's under $10.
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Like I said earlier, I don't understand (I guess it is maximizing profit) why some ebooks are more than pbooks - though that is not usually the case.
Either way, imo, ebooks are much preferable to me than a pbook - for reasons I got into earlier. While I'd rather not pay a premium (and in most cases you don't), it is worth a premium in my mind, and I will pay it (within reason) - even if 'you' can't explain/justify the premium based on how much it costs to actually manufacture an ebook vs. pbook. Sometimes it is not all about how much it costs to make something, but about the benefits perceived by the end user.