I just went to SimonandSchuster for a Star Trek book that just came out and the paperback is $7.99 but they plan to sell the eBook for $9.99. I then checked Diesel Book and they were charging over $8.00 and with my discount, it was $7.15 or so. How can this price be so inflated since no machinery such as a printing press, personnel or dead trees to make the paper. DRM costs and Royalties cannot cost this much to justify these charges. I guess that I will have to wait for a few months to see if they lower because there is a price I will not go above for a digital book which I could never print and pass on to someone else to read.
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