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Originally Posted by wgrimm
I like e-books, and have several readers, but- say I want to read a book, and either the library doesn't have it or I want to own a copy. Well, hardcover price is $24. Would I buy the e-edition, DRM-locked to a particular device, for $19.99? No way, probably not for 9.99. But remove that DRM and make it available for most formats, and I probably would.....
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I don't think you're taking into account the fact that most of the cost of producing a book is still present for an eBook. All the work done by the publisher - copy editing, the publicity and marketing, etc - is still present whether the book is printed on paper or distributed electronically. The reason the HB costs $24 is because most publishers rely on the HB print run to recoup their costs - the MMPB is where the profit lies. If the publisher didn't have that pretty much guaranteed pay-back of costs from the HB, they wouldn't publish the book in the first place.