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I have always thought the price of a paperbook irrelevant to my decision to buy the ebook; that’s not my rant and we’ve been down the road. However, I think I am entitled to assume that the content of a paperbook and an ebook are the same. I’ve just finished, again, an ebook that was unaccountably lacking the pictures included in the paperbook. It seems to me that when the pictures are excised, the ebook should have a banner akin to that of a bathing beauty running diagonally across the cover, “PICTURES NOT INCLUDED”, so the buyer can make an informed choice.
Me? The reality is that I’m not going to buy the paperbook and the lack of pictures is unlikely to change my mind in regard to the ebook, but there are cases when I can conceive that you’d really want to be able to see the pictures, the whole “one picture is worth a thousand words” thing. So I don’t care how much more expensive an ebook is, but when they don’t disclose that the pictures in the paperbook aren’t included, I do feel ripped off.
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