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Originally Posted by GA Russell
Yes, that is the mindset of the music industry, and the whole world sees where that has gotten them. I would hope that the book industry would have better sense, but perhaps time will show your view to be realistic, not pessimistic.
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I hope I am wrong, but based on how other stuff like music, tv, movies, newspapers have dealt with a transition to a digital world you have to assume the liklihood of book publishers also tripping themselves up over this move even if it might seem an easy move for the rest of us being little more than get the content out there in high numbers, don't overprice to try and protect your traditional market and most importantly don't try and treat your customers as potential thieves all the time since thats the easiest way to push them towards such behaviour.
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I think that your idea has great merit, but I don't think that a $2-3 discount would be nearly enough to spur the potential consumer to act. But what that discount figure might be would be a subject of negotiation between Amazon (or Sony) and the publishers.
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While the individual discount seems low, that wouldn't be how they would present it to the customer, they would take the usual approach of a headline figure of $300 say and its only in the small print that you would see that would only happen if you bought 100 books in the first 2 years or whatever.