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Originally Posted by Hellmark
This part I don't get at all. Why should it be more expensive? It doesn't cost any more to produce (arguably cheaper), and the person is not getting anything tangible, plus have to deal with DRM that makes it difficult or impossible to do what they could with a paper book.
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Book prices actually have little to do with "what you're getting"... they are largely arbitrary prices set by publishers, based solely on what they think they can get away with. This is the
real reason Big Pubs can't agree on pricing... they just don't know what they can get away with yet.
Also, basing an e-book's value on whether you're getting anything "tangible," as in an object you can hold in your hand, is a mistake, and one of the things that continue to hold e-books back in the market. E-books actually have
more inherent value than printed books, being more portable, less space-taking, more flexible in display/read/translate possibilities, and more environmentally-positive. They should not be thought of as printed books' "poorer cousin."