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I really don't get the "the e-book should be really cheap because there's no paper" argument. The cost to print a book in quantity is small. Maybe a couple of buck each, if that, in the volumes that a major publisher will print for a best-seller. If a paper book sells for $14, those who say an e-book should cost half the price of a p-book are saying they'd pay $7 for 300 pages of poorly bound low-quality paper.
The real cost in producing the book is in the overhead. Offices, phone bills, editors, design staff, secretaries, etc, that go into getting the book from the slush pile to market. Even distribution isn't that big a cost for paper books. And, despite what some seem to think, distributing e-books isn't free. Running the online stores cost money. Everything from IT support to bandwidth and all the staff involved. TANSTAAFL.
The e-book is worth exactly as much as I want to pay for it. If it is priced at that price or lower, I'd buy it. That's how I decide how much to pay for a p-book too.
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