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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
If it means the ebook costs more than the equivalent paperback, I'm against it. I'm against anything the publishers want to use to justify the increase in ebook prices, except maybe an increase in author royalties.
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I'm not following. What paperback could possibly be the equivalent of a multi-media ebook? And new-release ebooks from major publishers
already cost more than paperbacks. Are you suggesting that a handful of multi-media-titles are somehow going to drive major publishers' text-based ebook prices higher, too? I'm just seriously having a hard time following how anybody who is against multi-media ebooks (and would never buy one) believes they're going to be affected
in any way by multi-media ebooks existing, or being sold. Do you worry that your favorite authors will be forced to "
media up" their books by their publishers?
Multi-media ebooks have been quite possible for a long, long time now (with existing standards/technology). They're clearly no threat to standard novels (e or p).