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Originally Posted by radamo
Frankly, book publishers (and Amazon) are struggling with digital media (hopefully eventually they will understand its potential). This is the same thing that the music and movie industry are working through. They are just further along. Fact is that paying more for an ebook than a hard copy from Amazon is rather insulting. We are only purchasing the use of this media on a Kindle. This cannot be loaned to a friend or given as a donation to needy group. I am really struggling with this issue. It is a shame that publishers are not pricing these appropriately. There is more value to a hard copy book than a drm'd ebook, period.
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While I generally agree that pricing should be lower, if you're going to expect ebooks to compete price wise with bargain table books that are highly discounted I don't think your expectations are usually going to be met. That's like expecting an ebook to cost less than a book from a used bookstore.