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Originally Posted by Anthem
So many people seem to think the digital nature of the product entitles them to incredibly good prices the likes of which the world has never truly seen
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It's not an entirely unreasonable expectation, though, is it? The cost of production is significantly less (paper, printing, transport, storage, warehousing, shelf space, return of unsold books, you name it), and although obviously there isn't a 1:1 price/cost relation keeping prices the same is largely seen as publishers pocketing the difference. And rightly so, in my not so humble opinion.
Add the fact that DRM infested books significantly restrict your legal usage rights (a practically non-existent resale value, if nothing else) on top of that and it's easy to see why the market expects ebook prices to be significantly lower than the pbook counterparts, and reacts the way it does when they are not.