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Originally Posted by pwalker8
No, I don't. I am specifically talking about ebooks and when they come out at what price point. If the issue was the perceived value of hard back verse paper back, then publisher would come out with hard back and paper back at the same time. They don't. One year is roughly long enough where someone isn't going to wait a couple of months for the cheaper price. Jordan's widow was applying the same logic when she held off releasing the ebook versions of the last three volumes of the WOT series. If your logic were correct, then if someone releases a hard back book and the ebook at the same time and same price point, then no one would by the ebook, since the hard back has more "value". Yet, that is obviously not true.
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On the contrary, the value is in the format itself.
- Some people despise ebooks with all their soul,
- some people will always get the ebook if possible, no mater what,
- some people only buy freebies and depend on the library regardless of format,
- some people buy whatever they see first and don't think about it much.
- Some people only buy at certain price points, but since ebooks and pbooks are different products entirely (unlike the HB/MMPB split), their pricing tolerance of each is different.
I could probably come up with some more groups if I thought about it a bit.