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Originally Posted by p_a_smith
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).
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Exactly. In fact, they manage to convince a few people in this thread in particular. I also suspect a few backhanded methods from them, in the same way as the music publisher tried to seed "low quality" rips in the piracy channels a few years ago.
Ultimately, if the price is fair and the usage rights are fair to the buyer, publisher sell stuff. It took 10 years for the music industry to understand, the movie industry is possibly starting to get it, while ebook publishers are still right of the beginning of the learning curve.