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Originally Posted by wyndslash
there will always be pirates. but in terms of ebook prices, i really don't mind paying the same for it as for a paperback, but not more. thinking about it, i think we're all sort of forgetting the value of the book itself, i mean the content. we're all talking about prices in terms of the production costs, cuts, shares, etc, etc, like pieces of meat (i am hungry, thus the meat reference). i mean, as pbooks become phased out in the future (which i doubt for now. there are certain types of books that i enjoy more having in my hand), it will become harder to price ebooks. based on what? i mean, everyone's going to be saying that since they're digital files, there's little cost (aside from editing, blah blah).
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I hear what you saying (speak quieter, can hear you from manila!). People seem to only care for the cost with no mind for value. Still, I don't know how much you can blame the modern consumer. It's the wal mart effect. We're trained to want the cheapest things possible, and we don't care how those things or where those things were made.We don't care what the environmental impact was in production, who was involved and the human cost was. We just want it cheap and good. Books are now viewed the same way. Just another commodity. But isn't that what they have become. Books these days are made for for consumption, like a bag of potato chips. They should be fun, mindless, easily digestible, and shouldn't make us feel uncomfortable in any way. If it has a message its too preachy. Publishers and writers have been treating books like meaningless commodities for years, so you can't blame the consumer for agreeing with them