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Originally Posted by HarryT
I strongly suspect that it would not be economically feasible to sell eBook for a quarter the price of the printed book. Printing is a relatively small component of the price of a book; the main cost for a book such as this will be in the layout and editing, and that's there for an eBook just as much as for a hardback.
This is a company which has tried eBook sales and concluded that, for their market sector, piracy is too much of a problem. They do appear to be talking with the benefit of practical experience. One should blame the people who have pirated their books for this, not the company.
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Actually, its a company that doesn't know... well, I'm not sure if this board will censor for the shoe polish metaphor I want to use. They just *really* don't understand their customers.
These are the same people who felt that a miniatures game would do better if they distributed their miniatures in opaque- packaged booster packs like Magic cards. Unfortunately, the average miniatures gamer is a bit of a control freak and insists on knowing exactly what they're getting before they buy it. It also doubly shafted the people who use the miniatures for the RPG because some extremely common non-player character types (for example, Hutt gangsters in Star Wars) were super- rare or not available at all. So WotC's miniatures games are practically dead and people are buying their miniatures from other sources like Iron Wind Metals, Reaper, and Games Workshop.
As for the possibility of the legitimate PDFs being used for piracy; the ones I saw weren't. There's no way PDFs that crappy would've come out of a professional ebook vendor.