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Originally Posted by leebase
Piracy doesn't matter in the analogy. ebooks are pirated, movies are pirated. Doesn't change the fact that movies come out in their most expensive and profitable format first...and with increasingly cheaper and less profitable in succeeding time frames.
That's true of movies, and until Amazon's attempt to monopolize the ebook industry, was true of books as well.
Nonny
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Movies are starting to become available on DVD and Bluray closer and closer to their cinema release dates. Probably because not everyone wants to go to the cinema and may just wait to purchase the DVD, but by releasing the DVD so long after the cinema hype has died down they risk customers buying something else or pirating it.
If anything it's the cinema's that are trying to prevent simultaneous release rather than movies companies.
There was a news post the other year about Disney angering cinemas because they brought the DVD out a few month after the cinema release.
With ebooks, not everyone wants the hardback, some might buy it because they really can't wait to read it, but the rest that hold out for the cheaper paperback release are customers who will also wait until the ebook price drops. Customers that may have moved onto other authors/books by the time the price drop occurs. Which is also overlooking the problem that some books that are out in hardback and paperback form have ebooks still priced in line with the hardback rather than paperback.
If anything, the analogy shows that publishers are acting in the opposite way to the movies industry in terms of release times. Although I'm not sure that it's a good comparison anyway as DVD vs cinema has the view once vs purchase issue, where as hardback vs ebook isn't the same comparison, both you get to re-read unlimited times.