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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Devalues as in setting a price point in the public's mind that is less than the publishers want to sell it at. You confuse the manufacturer's cost of an item with the value of an item. The two are not the same. Value is how much someone is willing to pay for an item. At the moment, ebook price is tied to the price point of whatever the price of the current dead tree book at a particular point in time.
It might help if you think of it this way. X number of people are willing to pay $17 for a book, for whatever reason. Y number of people aren't willing to pay that much, but they are willing to pay $8 for the book. Rather than come out at $8 and get 8* (X+Y), book publishers publish the paper back a year after the hard back, which gets them (17*X) + (8*Y). The actual price point has little to do with the manufacturing cost of a specific book.
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You confuse the perceived value of a book with the perceived value of an ebook specifically.