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Originally Posted by leebase
The movie industry most certainly does. The video game and music industry don't have any time windowed offerings.
Yes, you can offer premiums (extra songs, signed covers) and the like, but then those are different products.
There is no "hardback ebook". Just as there will be no "used ebook".
Nonny
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Yeah, I shouldn't have included movie industry in there (I got distracted before re-reading my post to notice and edit, which I've now done
) Although the movie industry does appear to be wanting to close the windowing gap, cinemas are simply resisting them at the moment, the opposite of ebooks where amazon want no gap, publishers want a gap.
But I feel my point remains about premium content. It's what allows a higher price on the digital product and yet with ebooks publishers have no way to do this as, like you say, you can't have a hardback ebook. That makes any attempt to keep ebook prices at the hardback level feel out of place.
When the movie industry releases a DVD they'll most likely release the digital version at the same time yet the price difference is down to content not an arbitrary extra due to the "case" the DVD comes in.
ebooks content is identical to the paperback, price should be in line (or lower with the acceptance that discussion on the production costs, drm, licensing... is another ongoing debate elsewhere on here
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DVD content is identical to the digital version, price is inline or lower if the download quality is lower.
BTW I understand _why_ publishers want ebooks at hardbook prices on release. I just don't think it's logical for them to do so without finding a way to make the ebook at that point premium in some way too.