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Originally Posted by apastuszak
1. People will listen to the same music over and over again, which is why older music sells well.
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Maybe I'm alone here, but much like the music I choose to buy and keep in my collection, the books I buy and keep are ones that I go back to again and again as well. The seven hardback volumes of HP on our shelf are indeed decorative, but they get used, too.
Maybe I'm not alone...this is perhaps why books get reprinted and become classics?
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Originally Posted by apastuszak
Now if Rowling released each Potter book with some added value you don't get with the printed copy,
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Added value? Like the ability to have all seven books in your jacket pocket, search the contents, read at any font size you chose, and get them delivered instantly?
BTW, on another topic, this is why I get a bit annoyed at the ebook price rants. Yes, I think they should probably cost less than the printed editions, but publishers are not non-profits who are bound to pass on every cent they save to the public. They are out to make money, and they can--and should, in my Capitalistic opinion--charge what the market will bear. There is real value to ebooks over DTBs , even if that value didn't cost the publisher anything to provide. Pay for the value. If the price is too high for the value you think you're getting, don't pay it, and the publishers will get the message.
Our market system has flaws, but that part of it works pretty darn well.