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Originally Posted by stonetools
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.
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That makes no sense. The experiential difference between a pbook and an audiobook is the difference between reading and radio whereas the experiential difference between an ebook and a pbook is the difference between reading a book and reading a slightly different book.
People don't say audio books should cost less because they are not children, and understand the extra work that goes into producing an audio book. They also understand the very limited amount of work that needs to be done to convert a pbook to an ebook and the fact that selling one additional ebook once you've done that conversion has an almost nil marginal cost.
Also, I think people are arguing about two different meanings of the word "value". Value can mean the subjective value you place on something or the economic value (i.e. the price a buyer is willing to pay and the price a seller is willing to accept).