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Originally Posted by HarryT
Why? eBooks are more valuable than pbooks. They never deteriorate, no matter how often you read them, and they occupy no physical storage space.
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Well, ebooks:
-can't be lent (excepting Amazon's locked down system of course);
-can't be resold; and
-can't be placed on an already fulsome bookshelf to act as a status symbol.
Also, the "value" of an object is often at least somewhat correlated to what it cost to produce and the marginal cost of a publisher printing one additional ebook is effectively zero. I think it's safe to assume that if a publisher can make money on a physical book at $5.00 a unit, they won't be losing money on the ebook version at that price.
Since value is subjective, I can understand why the above wouldn't matter to someone. Say if they were living in a tiny apartment with a humidity problem, then the space saving and lack of deterioration would probably be more valuable.