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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
It would be worth mentioning here that the thread on Penguin 2.0 presents a fine example of a good reason to price e-books higher, i.e., providing extras and premium content that are not available in a MMPB, the same strategy used to sell many DVDs. This also has the added advantage of encouraging the consumer to buy legitimate material, as opposed to pirated e-books without the extras. |
Steve, it is an attempt to "justify" the pricing but at least for me one that fails. I am not interested in author interviews, sample chapters from other books written by the author, movie trailers, etc. as ebook enhancements. I prefer to pay a more reasonable price for DRM-free material.
Unlike the DVD that gets stored in my movie cabinet on a reusable disk that can be shared with friends, the enhanced ebook is still DRM laden and doesn't come on a disk for storage.
BTW, at least in my area of the country, as DVDs get "older" (i.e., further from their release date), they tend to get cheaper. There are a lot of older DVDs available for less than $7 with all the added features plus a nice case included. Of course, if I don't mind buying used DVDs, i can get the same thing for even less -- often as little as $3-$4. Can't do that with the enhanced ebook.