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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Different people have different price levels. In the old days this was settled with hardbacks, paperbacks and used books. With ebooks the choice is just hardback-priced-ebook or free pirate copy. What you need is something inbetween to mop up the money that the paperback and used book buyers are desperate to give you. And quickly. Because if you allow them to get used to everything being free on the pirate circuit they're lost forever.
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I really don't agree with this. I buy quite a lot of eBooks (typically about 3 a week), and they are mostly (from Amazon UK, this is) priced in the £4-5 range. I'd consider this to be reasonable - it's below paperback price, and that's even with the fact that eBooks are subject to 20% VAT while paper books are zero-rated.
Personally I would always buy a legal eBook even if I knew that pirate versions existed. The assumption that pirated eBooks will always result in a lost sale for the publisher is not a valid one.