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Originally Posted by DNSB
So the complaint about ebooks costing more than paper books despite preferring ebooks is entirely valid to me. That you seem to feel that spending more on an ebook validates your preference for them is something I have a great deal of difficulty understanding.
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How hard is it to understand that discounted paper books are NOT discounted by the publisher, but the retailer? Paper book has a 50% profit margin for the retailer at list price. Ebook has a 30% profit margin regardless of price that the publisher sets. Naturally it is much easier to discount the paper books way below list price than it would be for ebooks which the retailer is not even allowed to discount. On top of that the ebook that is discounted cuts into the share that the publisher gets. Discounted ebook equals lower royalties for the author, while discounted paper book is the same.