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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The reason to get rid of hardcover and other overly expensive editions (IMHO) is that eBook prices are based upon them. eBooks don't have different bindings and the price to produce an eBook has nothing to do with the price of the pBook. And until the publishers learn this, we can do without the expensive eBook price raising editions.
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Jon, it is not a reason to get rid of hardcover books because publishers are fools. If that were true, there would be lots of fools we could get rid of for lots of reasons.
You might have a better case if you could prove that getting rid of hardcover books would, in fact, translate to lower ebook prices, but there is nothing to indicate that is precisely what would occur.
It might be better to simply educate publishers that those who buy hardcovers will continue to do so even if ebook pricing is lowered.