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Originally Posted by ApK
I believe there are several benefits to eBooks over paper that are perfectly reasonable to expect the market to pay for if they want those benefits, like cloud access, loss replacement, instant delivery, etc.
Ebooks offer value to those of us who want them, and I don't see any problem with the sellers charging for that value.
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The publishers aren't supplying those things. Amazon is. The publishers don't manufacture the ereaders, supply and maintain the servers and support staff that make those things possible. They just do a one time upload to Amazon. Amazon bears all the remaining expenses. And the publishers don't guarantee that those benefits will continue if Amazon stops supplying them. They don't even guarantee that if the store you buy the ebook from folds they will make available a download of your paid for but no longer downloadable ebook. Now if Amazon said they needed to add to the price of ebooks to pay for their expences there would be some justification. And don't talk about the publishers servers. They already had those to handle billing and payrolls, adding ebook downloads to Amazon wouldn't add even pennies to the mix.