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Originally Posted by crossi
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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Naturally I disagree with your opinion entirely, but hey .... that's why we have opinions.
Regardless of medium, the stories/message/knowledge books impart hold equal value for me. The media then adds or subtracts from that value (thus why the advantages ebooks provide make me value them higher than other media). The savings publishers may realize because of the nature of epublishing have no bearing on my valuation of their product.
I'm happy that the medium I prefer is quite often cheaper than the others, but I 'm perfectly willing to pay an equal price (or slightly more) for ebooks. *shrug*