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New poster here, so hi!
Maybe I'm unusual, but I believe that publishers have ebook pricing completely wrong compared with print. I seldom read any book more than once (if we limit this argument to fiction or non-fiction other than instructional books). I also cannot remember the last time I bought a new book in those categories. If I want to read a new(ish) book, I borrow it from the library. If I want to buy a book, I buy it second-hand, usually at a price point around £2.50 to £3.00. I can then sell that book back to the dealer for half the price I bought it for, resulting in a net price of £1.25 to £1.50.
I cannot buy a used ebook, nor can I sell it when I have finished with it, so I have an expenditure of maybe £6 or £7 for an item that I will read and, essentially, discard!
I refuse to do this, largely because I am a voracious reader and I would be penniless in a very short time. For example, if I go on a 2 week holiday in the summer, I would typically take around 8 paperbacks with me. (Obviously, the ereader is a massive boon to me!) When I get back, I take these books back to the bookstall and hand them in at 50% part-exchange against some more.
Where is the economic sense in me paying the prices asked for ebooks? I realise that publishers need to make a profit, and authors need to make a living, but the business model needs to change massively before they make a penny from me.
Once ebooks can be traded in exactly the same way as paper books, with prices to match, then that is fair. To charge almost the same price as for a paper book for something that essentially has absolutely no value the moment you download it is tantamount to robbery for me.
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