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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I just find it a little puzzling that some people (who indicate that there's reasons--other than price--for why they prefer to buy ebooks) seem downright offended by the fact that a version of a book that they don't value enough to want to buy, might occasionally be a little cheaper than the price of a version they DO value enough to want to buy.
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I never understood that either.
What does it matter if the paperback, or the hard cover for that matter, is cheaper than the e-book, if I'm not ever going to buy the paper version? It could be free for all I care, because it's not a product I'm interested in.
A parallel is music, and there I can be 'offended': often, buying an album in MP3-format can be more expensive than buying the CD, especially if you can get the CD second-hand. This is something I won't ever accept, because the MP3-version will be worse (lossy) than the CD-version of the music.
I don't even know for sure if I'd buy a FLAC-version at the same or lower price than the CD; one never knows how the FLAC was created. Maybe they came from a bad source ('loudness war'-infected version of the CD, or even a previously encoded MP3 or something...), which leaves you with a bad file that can never be fixed. Thus, I always buy the CD, rip it to FLAC myself, create my 347 backups, and then give the CD away
