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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
It is also a way to justify higher ebook prices for books that never get printed in MMPB. They can still try to sell them for the cheapest paper book price and make more money, at least per unit not overall. Hey, the ebook is same price as trade paper back, so don't complain. 
Next thing? Trade paperbacks will start to decline in quality without getting cheaper. |
Probably. And the more the degrade the print experience, the better ebooks will look.
Sooner or later print *will* go away as a mass distribution medium.
It makes perfect sense that the phaseout begin at the low end with the format with the lowest margins for publishers and lowest royalties for authors.
Same thing happened with vinyl: the 45's were the first to go.
Print sales have been declining across all format all century long, since before commercial ebooks hit the mainstream. And the big publishers have been trying to push people away from paperbacks since they bought out the paperback houses in the 50's and 60's and started jacking up the prices. (It's been documented right here at Mobileread.)
It didn't start now and it sure isn't going to stop now.