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Originally Posted by latepaul
I don't think we generally judge how much something should be in price by its costs - because we don't know and even for big ticket items don't often try to find out - instead we get our sense of what a "fair" price is based on what similar items go for.
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That's probably correct for many, but the points about not being able to sell/lend an ebook, the costs of the ebook compared to a physical book are all just further arguments to back up the belief as to why the ebook should be cheaper. The comparison is there for digital music (even though it's better as it no longer has DRM), and in my experience MP3 albums are generally cheaper than CDs. And that is the bottom line for me, immaterial of cost, usability or anything else, it is still a digital file and not a physical item, so therefore it should be cheaper.