I won't pay $4 for a cup of coffee. I would not enjoy it; I would be thinking the whole time that I could make a cup of coffee at home for a fraction of that cost.
If I want a book, I will pretty much pay what I have to pay.
P.S. Re this paragraph in the article:
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Fact: Starbucks Has No Free Alternative
We cannot get a free cup of coffee, and even the cheap alternatives to Starbucks aren’t as good. But I can find alternatives to paid ebooks virtually everywhere – legal ones, too, and sometimes even from the same publisher as the one you want us to buy.
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It's totally backwards. Coffee is coffee is coffee. But each book is unique. If I want to read the latest Anne Perry, a Sherlock Holmes story from PG is not gonna float my boat. Books are not fungible, coffee pretty much is.