[DiapDealer]

The oysters and potatoes comparison doesn't work. They are different things. The Hobbit ebook is the same book as The Hobbit paper book. I understand people wanting to pay as little as possible for something. What I don't understand is people clinging to the notion that a price comparison between the format they want to buy (ebook) and a format they have no intention of ever buying (paper book) is somehow reasonable.

If price is your (rhetorical) bottom line, you buy the paper book if it's cheaper (or the ebook if it's cheaper). But if you always buy the format you prefer the most, then price is clearly not your bottom line, and you should give up comparing them.