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Originally Posted by barryem
So I think the bigger disparity is in the price of books in general. They've gotten way more expensive than inflation can account for. Compared to that the difference in ebooks and print books is small.
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That's precisely why so many of us expected significant cost savings when moving to digital. Now we feel ill-used and cheated in many cases.
But in truth, the big publishers have never seemed particularly caring for either customers or many of their authors, so I'm not that really that surprised, just angry with them all over again ... and maintaining that just anger, while getting on with other aspects of life. As lovely as books are, in many cases they are just a luxury item ... and we have plenty of those to distract us these days.