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[QUOTE=DiapDealer;3286047]As far as precedent goes: is it fair that publishers are chided for sticking with an ancient business model, while it's OK for consumers to expect pricing strategies to remain the same forever? The "no resale" thing is certainly one for the debit column when it comes to ebooks (even though I myself have never really availed myself of that particular advantage that physical books have over electronic), but surely it doesn't negate all the other advantages people in this thread have mentioned that electronic has over paper, does it? Don't those advantages add any value?
No. The added advantages of reading on an ereader are provided by the maker of the reader itself and paid for when you buy the reader. The publisher only provides a text file which has only minor differences from the same text file he sends to the paper printing device. The minor cost of taking a new book written in word or whatever and converting into two formats one for the printer and one for the reader instead of just one conversion for the printer does not to me justify a higher cost especially when it saves a lot more expences to the publisher as compared to a paper version. Maybe I might buy it if I really, really, REALLY wanted to read it right now (unlikely) but I would still feel ripped of which would leave a sour feeling while reading the book.
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