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Originally Posted by Harmon
That's the conundrum, isn't it? Do you try to get the full rights you are paying for, or are you willing to accept lesser rights for a lesser price? It can be argued both ways, and when the dust settles, we might see some kind of tiered system, where the same ebook is priced at different levels depending on the bundle of rights you get.
And oh yes, as someone pointed out earlier, instant delivery of the book is a nice new right that is worth paying for!
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About the tier system - I kind of doubt it will happen, being a bit too complicated, such systems usually revert to the lowest common denominator - see for print books how the issue of a mmpb immediately drives the hardcover in the remainder bin, with several exceptions like high popularity books, or collector/library editions, but even those are dwarfed numerically by the corresponding mmpb.
I would think more of a reverse auction, with higher prices for immediacy, dropping in time
And I agree about advantages of ebooks - I would not call them "rights" - in instant delivery, ability to change fonts, no physical space taken, many ebooks on a device- there are others like search, hyperlinks... that are less useful for me overall
It all depends - but my original point is that I rarely see a "nuanced" discussion of advantages, disadvantages, what we as customers should expect/demand...