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Originally Posted by MGlitch
I may be wrong, but I'd heard they were down for the major publishers, but the indie market was seeing a large upswing. Since we were discussing major publishers that's what I was basing my statement on. Again I may be wrong on that.
And I agree entirely about ditching DRM, Tor did it awhile back and has seen no negative impact in their sales sufficient to change that policy. DRM, in my opinion, does nothing to discourage piracy and instead just hinders honest customers from using their ebooks.
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Simon & Schuster's new SF imprint, Saga, appears to be without DRM as well. I don't know if this means S&S and Macmillian are, or will be, DRM-free across the board any time soon, but it would be nice.
Back to the pricing argument, it's usually just a temporary pricing artifact because the retailer may have sales on the print material for several reasons, including clearance sales, that causes the ebooks to be more expensive than the print editions but eventually the price of ebook ends up at or below the price of the cheapest print edition. I haven't seen anyone complain about the publishers trying to kill print sales by pricing the ebook less than the hard cover or trade paperback list price.