that's the first thing i consider every time this subject comes up.
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Originally Posted by Piper_
Something that should be considered in all this is that Amazon agrees that ebooks should be cheaper than pbooks. They fought the agency model, and have eagerly advertised the fact that ebooks would save money, especially before they were forced into accepting it last spring.
They also penalize pricing of ebooks that aren't at least 20% cheaper than the pbook version.
Jeff Bezos gave many of the same reasons as people have in this thread.
Just something to consider.
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when an ebook is overpriced imo, and i'm pretty reasonable about it, i buy the paper version used and email the publisher to let them know why i did that. seems more useful than penalizing the authors unless people are using it as a pressure tactic to force star authors to demand the price fixing by the publishers be removed. and mostly i haven't seen that.