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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
That was taken to court many times long ago and the courts decided resale of books was allowed. And yes, the author gets nothing. The publisher gets nothing as well. It's just one of those things. There are those who are already fighting to be able to "resell" ebooks. Some want to resell them "one time only" other want to resell multiple times.
It's very difficult to be an author/creator/artist!
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Don't get me wrong. I don't advocate the reselling of ebooks. I just would like to see more of the mainstream publishers reflecting the lower production cost of ebooks in the price. For instance, Nalini Singh's latest novel has the ebook (available now) priced at a bit over 8 dollars more than the paperback (available in December). I could understand in a way if the price of the ebook was to drop to below the paperback price in December (a reflection of "I gotta get it NOW NOW NOW" cashing in by the publisher. I have to wonder how much of the production cost savings are actually passed on to the authors? Do they get more royalties for ebooks than paperbacks?).
I still find that ebook prices do not reflect the production, storage, transportation cost savings.