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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Next to Stonetools you would be the last person I would have expected to start a thread with a title like that. Perhaps a wake up call? You can argue this issue all day, of course. But it is quite obvious that publishers have not yet fully embraced ebooks and seem to quietly hope they will go away.
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Wake up call? Probably not. It's not like I ever thought publishers could do no wrong.
I still have no problem with publishers taking control of the pricing of ebooks. I have no problem with an ebook being priced at or close to the price of the hard back. I was ready and willing to pay the $15 new ebook price...even though the hard back is discounted to $13.50 on Amazon.
I don't see ANY sense in simply withholding the ebook for a year. Money is money. If the ebook is priced to give the publishers the same money...what's it to them if I read the hard back or the ebook?
I don't have any problem with the hard back pricing window. If I wanted to buy a cheap paper back....waiting until after the hard back pricing window is simply "how it's always been". Never bothered me. It was "pay now and enjoy, or wait and pay less".
But Tor isn't giving me my "pay now" option in ebooks. That makes no sense.
This is quite different from complaining about the price of ebooks and how it costs nothing to make them and therefore I should be able to buy new release popular fiction at used paper book prices. THAT line of reasoning I've never agreed with.
I have money, I'm willing to pay for their product.
Lee