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Originally Posted by TCSimpson
And I think it's a fallacy that most adult buyers of books are willing to dish out the same price or more for the convenience of an ebook.
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I am not aware of anyone here expressing that fallacy. If you check out big publisher prices, you will see that, for the first year of so, they set eBook prices well below hardcover, and in the second and third year, often below paperback prices as well.
Now, personally, if I was going to buy a book, which I rarely do, I would indeed pick the eBook if it was equal to the price of the cheapest paper edition, or even if the eBook was a smiggen more. However, that's me, not most people. The most people situation is surely why the marketeers price the
eBook lower.
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Originally Posted by TCSimpson
I tend to buy books in bunches, many I haven't read yet. Let's say I have no idea how to remove DRM and want to read the books I ALREADY BOUGHT from kindle/Amazon, but now on my new Nook. Guess what? I can't. It would necessitate me going to PURCHASE those books all over again.
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So you can afford to buy brand new books in bunches, and are getting them for less money than in the past (presuming you used to buy them shortly after publication). Good for you that you can support literature in this way, with no snark intended.
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Originally Posted by TCSimpson
I quoted TOR, the publisher, the imprint, AFTER they did a survey of their readers and authors . . .
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I wonder if the survey covered other Macmillan imprints. Even if it didn't, the bigger publishers must all be doing market research that touches on this.
Of course, Macmillan isn't going to publish that they also surveyed St. Martin's Press (another one of their imprints) readers and determined that DRM elimination wouldn't change their lack of brand loyalty. Macmillan would be unwise to do that because it would generate negative publicity on the internet.