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Originally Posted by Nick_Djinn
Nobody should be forced to make an agreement with the public library. It should be a choice for the author if their patent is still valid.
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Books are not patented. Books are copyrighted. Copyright runs out 70 years after the author's death.
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Originally Posted by Nick_Djinn
Source? Do you have any real data that shows this definitively? Of course books are still popular, but can you prove that more people are paying $17 for the content ...
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Uh, abookreader View Post said "willing to pay a reasonable price". The important thing is that everybody has a different idea of what a reasonable price is.
For example $6-$7 seems like a reasonable price for a non-DRM protected ebook to me, if the paperback version is available. Higher prices for early adopters, as to not have an ebook competing with the hardcover at a fraction of its price, would be fine by me, too.
Demanding that ebooks need to be "dirt cheap" is not suggesting reasonable prices, because authors and editors and typesetters and cover designers and -illustrators and marketing staff need to be paid. I'd rather have a well-writtern, edited and formatted ebook for $6 than dreck written by the yard, full of typos and random linebreaks for $0.60