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Originally Posted by rkomar
True, but the comparison is to paper books, which you can lend out and resell and keep regardless of whether the publisher can/wants to keep paying to keep your book in the DRM servers. I think BeccaPrice's point is that, you lose those rights when you buy an ebook over a pbook, so why pay the same amount if you value those missing rights?
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No reason you should pay anything that you don't want to for a consumer product. No reason anyone has to sell you this same product at the price you want to pay.
Some prefer paper books, some prefer ebooks.
If the right to sell your book is paramount, buy the paper copy. If reading the book as an ebook is paramount, buy the ebook copy. Or if price is paramount, buy nothing.
Worrying about whether you arepaying more than x dollars for an item seems a bit limiting on the individual doing the worrying. I also know individuals who won't nuy am item because it is too cheap.
Setting an arbitrary price limit either way seems to imply that you will buy anything cheap or anything expensive. Not really true, but very definitely limits choices and in the long run, possibly means you buy a fair number of things, based more on price, not on what you want or need. Sort of like a preprogrammed on/off switch in your brain.
Helen