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ficbot · 12-01-2010, 01:09 PM

The issue with discounts is not that ebook readers should be 'entitled' to it, per se. It's that paper books continue to get them. So the reader feels cheated when s/he sees an ebook listed at $20 and that's final, when meanwhile the paper book (which costs, even by the publisher's own admissions, 20% more to make) is on sale for $15 at the bricks and mortar store down the street.

12-01-2010, 01:09 PM	#139
ficbot Wizard Posts: 2,409 Karma: 4132096 Join Date: Sep 2008 Device: Kindle Paperwhite/iOS Kindle App	The issue with discounts is not that ebook readers should be 'entitled' to it, per se. It's that paper books continue to get them. So the reader feels cheated when s/he sees an ebook listed at $20 and that's final, when meanwhile the paper book (which costs, even by the publisher's own admissions, 20% more to make) is on sale for $15 at the bricks and mortar store down the street.