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Originally Posted by spindlegirl
To me, a book is a book. I think most people get indignant at e-book prices because they are of the opinion that ebooks are not "real books".
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Not sure I have come across anyone with that view.
An ebook is a real book and an ebook costs less to provide to the customer than its physical counterpart.
End of story really.
Some continue to see this discussion as my personal gripe and my personal view. It isn't. It is about what is fair. Nothing more, nothing less.
It's not even about whether books should idealistically cost more to match their supposed true value.
It is simply that ebooks by their very nature, should cost significantly less than their physical versions.
It is also about the behavior and practices of many publishers, and that goes back beyond the advent of ebooks.
If some publisher is in a pretty predicament now, I wonder who should be blamed? Hardly the customer or the author, who generally have very little control.