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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Agreed on the unhappiness of an ebook having a much higher price than the pbook. I'm not trying to defend that sort of nonsense. There's an awful lot of wishful thinking on the part of publishers about how much they can charge, just as there's a lot of wishful thinking on the part of buyers on how cheap an ebook can be, and various publishers will find out the hard way they have inflated notions.
Ultimately, I think the price for an ebook will level out to comparable with the MMPB edition, when the MMPB edition is released. Ebooks released at the same time as the hardcover will carry a higher price.
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Dennis
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I have no problem with the concept of paying roughly the same price as for a paperback. I never did buy an ebook from Amazon, but patronized Fictionwise heavily. Not for the $9.99 bestsellers, which I didn't buy anyway, but for all the ebooks which had been out for a while and cost $4 to $8 before discounts. I never bought new hardbacks, happily waiting for for PBs. What seriously annoys me is NOT that I want new $25 hardbacks in ebook format for a few bucks. I don't even necessarily want ebooks any cheaper than I can buy a PB for. The discussion about what ebooks 'ought' to cost based on the publishers' costs misses the mark for me. And being told that I'm annoyed because I just want 'cheap' books isn't exactly true, either. What I do want is for retailers to have the same freedom to 'entice' my purchases that they used to have for ebooks, and still do have for paper! Let me look for deals, bargains, coupons, multiple purchase discounts, and any and all other forms of little perks, the same way that I can when I want a couple of paperbacks. Or discontinue allowing retailers to discount all formats. The real irritation factors are ebooks costing more than PBs, and, for me, refusing to allow retailers to discount ebooks as they see fit for THEIR business and THEIR customers.