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Originally Posted by lilac_jive
I don't pay "double" for my ebooks. I always pay less (and sometimes a good amount less) than the pbook.
As for the ebook costing zip to the publishing house, you do realize that a good majority of the money you spend on a book goes to royalties to the author, and the publisher's fees, not the actualy cost of printing?
You are more than welcome to create your own ebook copy from a pbook, as long as you don't distribute it, as far as I understand.
And following your logic, if you have a book in hardcover you should be able to get the paperback for free. You don't think there aren't costs associated with making an ebook?
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a. you would pay double if like I said, and please start replying to what I said for a change, you bought the printed book and wanted to have the ebook too for portability and infrequent use.
b. Lol. That's actually in favour of my argument what you are saying. If the actual cost of printing is the least of their expenses, then all the more so for the electronic version which is the closest thing to being free in terms of "printing" expenses. All the more so for them to give an electronic version when you 've already paid them the rights of the book in full with the printed one, since it costs them nothing.
c. I have created some e-copies of books but it's way, way too time consuming. They don't allow me though to own a pdf version they have created even if I own the printed verion. I assume you consider this unfair too.
d. No the logic doesn't translate to hardcover/paperabacks because a. they are separate physical items, and b. they are much, much, much more expensive than e-books. You mean to say, "you don't think there
are costs associated with making an ebook?". Yeas of course they are, but they are minimal. I wouldn't mind paying an extra dollar or so on top of the actual physical book to have an ecopy too, but paying almost double is a rip off.
Anyway you people want to be taken for the proverbial ride...go ahead...of course you are making matters worse for the informed minority but that's the way it always is...remember though how people used to buy crap 128 kbs mp3s drmed that they could only play in a couple or devices and they would lock themselves out of their own music some years ago...