Oh yeah, I forgot to mention:
I gladly paid $14.99 for Lost in a Good Book (eBook) month or two ago when I purchased it. Because I felt that it is worth that price whether printed or electronic.
Or, I could drive to Borders and buy the crappy Penguin trade paperback for the exact same price locally. Plus tax. Plus driving back again. Plus I'm a germ scared android so I don't just pop in to a store whenever the whim hits me. Making the eBook for the same price hugely desirable.
True, I could purchase from a discounted store like Amazon or even get it used off of the marketplace or eBay or something but I didn't.
I actually value the eBook higher than the print book in this case because I want the things that the eBook version can give me that the printed book cannot. Both are $14.99, but the amount of convenience minus the amount of work I am required to do in either case actually makes the eBook version worth more than the printed book (to me).
So I paid the asking price with gusto and two minutes later I was reading it in the crook of the arm of my couch, adjusting the fonts, and smiling copiously as Thursday continues her delightful adventures.
The truth is that some people will look at a $14.99 eBook and scream bloody murder over the outrage of a book priced in a way that other people might consider to be perfectly fair and the opposite of outrageous. I'm accustomed to paying QUITE A BIT more than a measly $14.99 for books that I truly want to read. If they had released the eBook version at the hardcover price all over again, now that would seem weird, but they didn't and they simply matched the trade paperback price and I would rather have the eBook over the trade if they are both at the exact same price.
Oh man, long winded apologetics look horrible on me!
