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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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Although I agree about that part, the part that really bothers me is
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15% suggesting parity pricing
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Parity with what? People in the industry, probably above even readers, should be well aware that hard cover prices are considerably different from paperback. So which should ebooks have parity with?
Personally, I'd like to see ebooks with parity pricing to used books-but I doubt if that's gonna happen. Any more the most frequent reason I'll decide not to buy an ebook is because I can find it cheaper in paper version-usually as a used book, but not always.