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Sorry. I don't buy it. Any publisher selling e-books for as much as hardbacks or in some cases more are money grubbing. I expect an e-book to at MOST to be priced about the same as a mass market paperback. As long as the book is published in paper AND e-book format, the e-book is going to have lower costs. You don't have to proofread and edit the book 2 times, one for the paper release and one for the e-book. No paper cost, no warehousing cost, no extra advertising cost, no shipping cost. A website to sell e-books is rather unlikely to cost more than the distr. and retailer cuts for paper books.
If publishers want to survive they have to stop thinking in horse-and-buggy mode and start thinking in automobile mode. Its adapt or die time.
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