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This whole thread seems surrealistic in light of the fact that just a couple of forums over, there are thousands of ebooks on offer for free or for the less than $5. Quite a few of those are on offer from those very same publishers that Elfwreck is attacking for ignoring the cheap ebook market.
It appears to me that the publishers do finally get that there is a cheap ebook market. However, the publishers and major authors aren't interested in appealing to that market by pricing potential bestsellers below market value. Can't say as I blame them.
I'll also point out once again that most of the price of a book is not in printing and distributing cost, but in paying the author, the editor, the proofreader, the cover artist, etc. Those costs didn't magically go away because someone invented the Internet. It's lot more expensive to pay James Patterson or nora Roberts than someone unknown starting out.
I'm not sure what the point of those arguments are, really. It's kind of like me arguing that BMWs should cost only 20,000 even thought I have never built a car. In the end, everybody always thinks that every price should be lower except the price of their labor.
Bottomline, if you think a particular ebook is too dear, don't buy it. Maybe the price will go down in the future. But quit the bellyaching about stuff you don't know about and don't control. My $0.02.
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