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Originally Posted by sony_fox
Other than shear exploitation of ebook readers why is this at all relevant?
I'm quite happy to accept that a hardback costs more to produce than a paperback (I'm not quite sure it's 3x as much but that's another argument). However I am very sure that an ebook is an ebook and doesn't change in costs (if anything it gets more expensive over time (server storage) rather than less). Having new ebook titles at hardback prices is just outrageous.
One of the main advantages is the whole convenience thing, want click have, but encouraging readers to wait until the paperback comes out is just counterproductive.
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It's relevant because the publishers are businesses trying to make money from selling books and while we would like to see ebooks come out at the same time as the hardback for a much lower price it just doesn't make sense for them to do that.
Ideally they would release ebooks at normal prices when the hardback came out, but the compromise of charging a premium or holding back the ebook until the paperback is released doesn't seem so terrible, especially when there are far more issues with unrealistic pricing than that.