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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Which in turn, in my humble opinion, has very little to do with what an ebook should get sold for. Profit margins are certainly relevant to pricing strategies, but they've never been nearly as important as "what the market will bear." Clearly, a lot of consumers have not yet bought into the idea that ebooks should be drastically cheaper than their physical counterparts--else they already would be (regardless of who's setting the price).
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which is true & a shame
particularly since an ebook has indeed less intrinsic value than a pbook :
***a pbook can be easily sold back for at least 75% it's original price if kept in good conditions & sold back quickly after being read
Whereas an ebook is yours end of story, no reselling.
***a pbook can easily be shared with lots of friends. Heck in some communities people just pass books from one person to another.
Whereas an ebook well .... even if it's not DRM protected I don't think you can copy it to someone else ereader legally. (unless the ebook is completely free to begin with, which is not what we're talking about)
So it all comes down to paying the same or more for less value.
The gaming industry has the same problem (physical copies often cheaper than digital copies). Though they kind of work around it with frequent seasonal huge sales.
I hope to see the same in ebook but I'm not very confident in this happening.