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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Sorry, but I find your logic equally perverse. The price of the format you don't desire has zero bearing on the price of the format you do. The mere act of you wanting it more adds value to it. If you think the publishers don't know this, you're fooling yourself. Give yourself a break and stop comparing P to E prices. Change paradigms. Price the experience, not the format, and you'll understand why many (myself included) find book-pricing (E or P) quite the bargain. Certainly more reasonable than dinner out, a concert, or a sporting event (events I find similarly pleasing, experience-wise).
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Absolute rubbish. Who says I want it more? I want it instead, totally different. We are not talking about two entirely different things. We are talking about the same things essentially, but in two different forms. It is a preference for many of us, purely because there is a choice. If ebooks didn't exist, we would still be happily reading our physical books, and not feeling hard done by.
In no way shape or form is an ebook worth more. If it is to you, then that is purely in your mind. I can see where you are coming from, but it is not where I or many others come from. If you've put your own superficial value on a book, then good for you, enjoy. But don't force that on the rest of us.
It is not unreasonable to see an ebook, as the format given to a Printer before physical books are printed from it. So any production cost after that is mostly an artificial one where ebooks are concerned.
If an ebook costs less to make for essentially the same product, then why shouldn't it be cheaper?
I believe in paying a fair price for something because of its real value, not some misbegotten notion of how much it must mean to me, based on the fact I want it. Imagine what would occur if we applied that foolish notion to everything in our lives. We'd be instant paupers and have very few things.
I honestly don't know how you can possibly compare a book to a dinner or sporting event etc. Very different activities and experiences. All pleasure is not the same, nor is the production of such.
Even if we took the notion that a book is a bargain price and so actually worth more, an ebook version should still be cheaper, because it costs less to produce and deliver. A physical book has many significant added costs.
At the end of the day, it is about judgment, and the judgment of what a book should cost, has been around for a long time. Who are you or I to second guess that, except when there is disparity or conflict or contradiction. With an ebook though, it is a given, based on the facts, that it should be cheaper.