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Originally Posted by rhadin
Harry, what you meant to say then is that ebooks are more valuable to you, not that they are more valuable. the "to you" is an important qualifier. I buy a lot of ebooks (currently have more than 500 in my TBR pile) but I only buy in ebook form either a book I'm not interested in keeping once I have read it or a book I have bought the hardcover version of but want the convenience of reading in ebook form (I buy very few for this latter purpose, perhaps 3 or 4 in a year).
To me, although I have the same shelf problem you have, ebooks are significantly less valuable because I have no intent of keeping them once read.
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Of course , if judgments as to the value of ebooks are subjective, then this invalidates authoritative pronouncements that ebooks are inherently less valuable because of this and that restriction, and thus should cost much less.
Ebooks are as different from pbooks as are audiobooks from pbooks. Oddly enough, no one insists audiobooks MUST be less expensive than pbooks.