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Originally Posted by MrPLD
If there's enough money appeal, competition will squeeze its way in somehow.
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When publishers control the supply and pricing the only competition that might appear will certainly be labelled piracy. I think the reality of ebook publishing has closer parallels to the music industry a decade or so ago and what is happening with television and movies right now (Megaupload.com comes to mind) than anything else in traditional economics.
If publishers keep the prices higher than the public perceives as fair then piracy will become more acceptable as a response (because digital media are easy to distribute). Which is priobably the reason behind the recent push from publishers to tell us how expenseive ebooks are to produce and how "fair" the prices are. (Something which I was responding to in my original note).