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Originally Posted by Kitabi
IMHO it is really up to the publisher how they want to price their books. The issue is that there is no market for used ebooks due to technical constraints/willingness issues and there is no willingness to try a subscription model to replace it.
Most people unwilling to pay above a particular price point for ebooks are people who get/got books from the used market or the libraries or the hand me down/swap network in the DTB world. By removing and/or restricting these options and not offering an alternative, the publishers have created this growing pool of dissatisfied readers.
Bottomline: A publisher is free to charge whatever it thinks the market would pay for a new book but by removing or restricting secondary means of access they have opened up a hole which is being filled by piracy or complaints depending on the user.
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Agreed. As I tell my extremely pro-copyright husband all the time: They can charge whatever they want...but that doesn't mean I'm going to buy it. They can keep it and bemoan pirates all they want...when they are destroying their own market.