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Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash
As Kali Yuga said, Harlequin is not clueless publisher new to ebooks. They are quite established in that area, and have been doing it very well, in my opinion. I've been buying ebooks from them since long before I decided to buy an ereader. Three cents more for a book I don't have to find room for? Worth it, definitely.
Yes, their response was silly. If they had said "converting paper books" instead of "converting text files" I might throw them a point, even if it would still be partially inaccurate. As someone who has converted many text files, I can't cut them any slack on that excuse. But the added value thing - if we were talking about $5, I'd take issue with it, but not for $0.03. Even though I try to stretch my dollars till they break when it comes to books, it's definitely worth at least that much.
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I guess it all comes down to where people draw a line on pricing, for me my limit is paying no more for ebook version than the paper version, but that is the limit for me as a matter of principle and not simply costs. If a publisher cannot be satisfied with that level of additional profit (due to the ebook version being cheaper to produce) then I'll vote with my wallet and go buy another book with a less unrealistic approach to pricing.