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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Why? It doesn't matter. The cherry-picked few cases where ebooks are more expensive than print are not the rule. And as already noted: I don't care all that much how the prices of ebooks (that I value more) compare to the prices of print books (that I value not at all).
I don't give the slightest hoot about DRM these days. It has zero impact on my valuation of ebooks. I'm not a curator; I'm a reader. I'm happy to let stores and libraries do all the curating. I'll stick to the reading.
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Because it does matter. For people that aren't into eBooks yet they look at the costs of getting a dedicated reader and the books and it would cost them more or the same. So why bother in the first place?
If you want to charge me the same price as the paperback or more don't give me a low resolution cover that looks bad on a modern reader, don't give me books riddled with obvious typos and weird formatting issues like the final "page" being 100 page turns long. These are issues I've had in purchased books.
DRM constrains the average user. No lending your friend that book you really liked and you can't necessarily read the book on the device you want to. Plus you run the risk of losing your purchases if the seller goes bust. While it's currently possible to remove the DRM from some of the big sellers there's no guarantee that will be the case in the future and it's still too complicated for some people.
I like eBooks but there's tons of room for improvement IMO from the format side, the reader side and the price side.