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There seems to be a recurring theme in this thread that the price of an eBook will fall when the mass market paperback comes out.
First of all, it has been my observation over the past fifteen years that popular fiction hardcovers are not eventually released as MMPB. The only MMPB I see at Borders are the genre titles. These appear to me to be first editions. The general fiction I see in paperback are always trade paperback.
Second, I don't see the price of eBooks having dropped over time. Can anyone cite examples of titles dropping when the paperback came out? I know that the head of Macmillan promised that that would happen, but I don't think it has yet.
Finally, I wouldn't be concerned if the prices of eBooks were typically 80% of the price of the least expensive paper edition, particularly of living authors. I'm much more concerned about the lack of interest (or ability) of the publishers in releasing back catalogue titles of deceased authors.
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