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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
You'd be guessing, and not actually arguing. People buy at the price they're willing to pay for the format they prefer (whether that's an ebook format or a physical format), at the time they're ready to buy. There is no consensus.
As I've mentioned countless times in endless parades of threads like this: I don't even compare the price of a format I prefer to buy with price of a format I have zero intention of buying. It's irrelevant. If the price of the format I'm going to buy is currently too high for my comfort, I just wait until it's not any more. Same as it ever was.
The problem with all the "ebooks are too expensive" diatribes is that they're all predicated on everyone believing that ebooks are somehow inherently less valuable than their paper counterparts. But everyone doesn't believe that. Ebooks are inherently more valuable to me than their paper counterparts. The fact that I nearly always pay less for the ebook format of a title than the current available paper version of the same title is just icing on the cake.
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It's an informed guess. Walk into a bookstore and note the percentage of hardcover to paperback, or that places like drug stores/wal-mart often don't even have hardcovers to sell or just a handful.
I find the quality of ebooks aren't as good despite costing the same or more. It doesn't feel to me anyways that the quality is as good. Yes, there is some advantages but there's also some ridiculous disadvantages like being DRM laden.