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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
You and everyone else I know feels the same way. The bottom line seems to be "The ebook should not be more expensive than the mass market paperback edition."
I can see areas in which this may not be true down the road. For example, the ePub format is a container. It can contain more than text. It's possible to produce an ePub edition delivered on CD or DVD, that would include an audio version of the book, a video interview with the author, a gallery of art inspired by the book, and other things besides the actual electronic text. How much should that cost? More than the mass market paperback, for sure.
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That would be a special edition and not the standard option though, so there's nothing wrong with them asking more for a product like that, however that would be more a thing that fans might want and as such they would still need to produce the ebook version separately.
It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if thats the way they want with some authors in the future, combine the stuff you list with a limited edition hardback version and then flog it at a higher price to fans, you see the same marketing methods used nowadays with stuff like dvds, videogames etc all the time.