Thread: Why e-books?
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Old 03-23-2016, 06:15 AM   #172
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post

Therefore, if the ebook price is higher than the paper book price, publishers are making 'excess' profit.

Personally, I won't buy a book if the ebook price is higher than the new paper book price.
I see it as a crip tax, and I object to that pretty strenuously. Just as I do to deliberate windowing which makes the accessible format available only months or more after the inaccessible one.
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