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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Except that I never even considered production costs when I was purchasing books before ebooks came along. I valued books strictly by the enjoyment I took from their contents. That mentality hasn't changed a bit just because the medium did.
So for me (for ME, mind you... I'm not presuming on anyone else), the whole "Oh, but the production costs!" mantra is a bunch of hooey. I'm buying words that are strung together in ways that are pleasing to me. Always have been. So I'm not going to start crying about production costs now when I didn't give two hoots about production costs then.
I'm perfectly willing to pay the exact same price for those words in an ebook as I am for those same words in a physical book. And yes, I still consider a dollar or two higher or lower the "exact same price." I simply do not recognize any logic that suggests an ebook is somehow inherently less valuable.
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Er... I don't do mantras, I gave that up with the bald head and the orange dress. I am merely stating a fact, which is in case you weren't listening, that a hard back book costs more to produce than an ebook, which is why they are priced accordingly. Ergo, lower production costs, lower price.