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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
Sure it is. By the point the paperback is released, a large proportion of the potential ebook market will have pirated the book and read it. It's well known in, frex, games that the best way to counter piracy is simultaneous release. (And at a sensible price)
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I meant there was no good reason for them to not have them out at least as soon as the paperback version, sooner would obviously be better. One thing that can't help matters is the general lack of info on release dates, its just so difficult at times to find out when or even if stuff is going to come out as an ebook unless you keep checking the shops all the time.
One point about the piracy issue, things like the games and music industry do tend to overstate things rather drastically, their reasoning that one pirated copy = one lost sale is stupidly optimistic.