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Originally Posted by anamardoll
But why should they be? We can all quibble over how much less expensive eBooks are to produce than pBooks, but I think we can all agree that the profit margin on an eBook over a pBook is very likely higher. So why shouldn't they be priced AT LEAST the same, if not less on the eBook side??
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As much as this makes sense from a buyer's point of view, the sellers will take more if they can get it. And at the moment they can charge more, ebooks are selling very well. Cost often has very little to do with selling price. I would guess that this is especially true in publishing where some products have to subsidize loss makers.
All we readers can do at the moment is to refuse to buy when prices are higher than paper and let them know why. We can argue all we want about "fairness", it won't do any good.