Hi all! I'm new here, but glad I found y'all. I'm a eBook nut.
I tend to buy a lot of eBooks and prefer to find the price at least slightly below the current market price for the same content. I can understand the perspective of the publisher - ebook preparation, distribution and royalties have costs - some of them fixed. But eBook don't yet have the volume of regular books, so the capitalization of the cost ends up being higher on a per unit basis. I hope it eventually moves in the direction of online music where the cost for the elctronic version drops well below the retail cost.
Of course, when I'm buying an eBook, I'm buying three things - content, speed of delivery, and
storage space. I'm at that stage on in my paper book aqcuistion where if I buy a new book, I have to get rid of an old book to make room. The storage issue is important enough that I have been known to buy an eBook of a title I already have if said title is thick and takes up too much room on my bookshelf.
All said, the part that really annoys me is when there's an eBook I want selling for the hardcover price, but the content has already been issued in paperback. Grrrrrrr.
