For some things, I would accept lower quality in exchange for a lower price. For other things, I would not.
The problem with eBooks is, you don't know what quality you'll be getting based on price. You don't realize the quality until after you have already bought the product. (Ignoring for the moment library borrowing where you don't have to directly pay for a product, which I tend to do more of these days.)
We have found in this thread that some people are significantly bothered by low production quality. Others are not. And of those that are bothered, some are bothered because they are taken out of the story by errors, while others are bothered because of the rip-off feel of paying good money for poor quality. Some rail against poor quality, some appear to defend it. Some have pointed out that in order to get such a large selection of eBooks we have to be willing to accept lower quality (too expensive to produce otherwise). Everyone has a valid point. To each his or her own, nobody is right, nobody is wrong.
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