I couldn't get my survey response accepted by the web site because of not answering the question:
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Who do you think should be responsible for setting the price on an e-book?
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My answer is that it depends. With a living author and a non-self-published book in a relatively free country, I would look at the terms of any contract between the author and the publisher, and of any contract between the publisher and the seller. Also, I think that a certain amount of diversity in how different countries treat books is healthy.
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What do you think should determine the price of an e-book?
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My answer:
Other (Please Specify)
For the wholesale price, if under copyright by Berne Convention standard, the whim of the rights owner, unless contracted otherwise. Otherwise, the whim of anyone who wants to digitize it (usually means free). For the retail price, I'm not sure, but am OK with one system for Germany and another for the US.
lucy.grieve, I found your survey to be, by US standards, extremely biased against the free market. Then again, the survey's forced answers are also biased against those people -- I call them pirates -- who think the reader should determine the price.