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Originally Posted by harryE123
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...
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There's so much to argue with that I don't even know where to start.
a. I'm assuming you mean I would pay double if I bought both the ebook and the pbook. Well, obviously.
b. But it's not free to make an ebook. Royalties change with ebook copies. Plus you have to pay for converting the text, which especially if it's OCRed can get expensive. A lot of times they also have to repay for cover art, which depending on the contract is not included for an ebook.
c. So if it's hard for you, what makes you think it's easy for them? Except for more recent titles, many older books have been scanned then converted. If they spent money and time creating that book, yes, you should pay for it. And PDF is a terrible format, by the way.
d. How is it different? Just because it's digital doesn't mean work didn't go into creating it. Do you think it costs a lot of money to create a paperback book? It doesn't. With any book you buy the majority of the costs is fees, not production.
But here's the deal. Getting a free ebook with a pbook I buy is the least of my worries. I don't usually buy pbooks, and when I do it's because the ebook doesn't exist yet legally. I have a hard time believing that a large number of people want both. Ebooks are still in their infancy, and you want publishers to take on MORE costs and lost revenue in a medium that most publishers don't take seriously yet?
This is just a battle that does not need to be fought yet, if not at all.