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Originally Posted by buze
I don't agree, the fact that the ebooks is unusable outside of your own account, and that you can't resell or even lend it means that is is LESS VALUABLE for the "owner" than a random paperback and that it should be cheaper, by a lot.
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I'm afraid that I must repeat that your assertion that "There is very little work required in making the ebook" is quite simply false.
You may well feel that for you, subjectively, an eBook is worth less than a paper book due to the fact that you can't resell it. For me, that's irrelevant, since I don't resell my books. The eBook is actually worth more to me than a paper book, because it never degrades, no matter how often I might read it, and it uses no physical storage space. I live in a small house and don't have room to store thousands of paper books. I can - and do - have thousands of eBooks.
We must all make a personal judgement of what these things are worth to us. I have no problem at all paying the current price for eBooks (typically 60-80% of the paperback price), hence I buy them. If they are not worth the price to you, then naturally the correct course of action for you is not to buy them.