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Originally Posted by kacir
If you search those forums you will see that we have discussed this topic many, many times.
Many people have interesting theories regarding such high prices:
- because they *can* charge that much
- because they want to find out how much the market (read: us -- suckers buying despite ridiculously high prices) can bear
- because the publishers want to sabotage the entire e-book industry so they can continue with their old and well established business. Preferably using quills, ink, handmade paper and that newfangled thing "movable type"
- because they fear piracy and want paying users to compensate for "loses" caused by "pirates" (the interesting thing is, the pirates do not need e-books, they most often simply scan paper books (in my humble and not well informed opinion))
- because they have no clue about e-books
- because most of the senior management (in publishing industry) are technophobes
- because the licences for DRM technology used are expensive
- because they fail to see parallels with the music industry
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You would prefer a stagnate forums where new people would not be encouraged to address topics of interest? Or perhaps you are cautioning the old hands that they already had their turn?
Help me out here, what difference does it make if a topic has been previously discussed?