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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
There'd be nothing wrong with that idea, except that e-books are generally not fairly priced to the consumer, the way iTunes music is.
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But iTunes isn't fairly priced.
1 CD is about 15 songs and costs about $15. So $1 per track is the
purchase price for music.
iTunes doesn't
sell DRMed music. They
license (i.e. rent) it. Does anyone pay Blockbuster purchase price to rent a DVD? I don't think so.
So $1 per DRMed song is not even close to "fairly priced to the consumer."
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
If DRM e-books were, say $2.00, and non-DRM e-books were, say, $2.50 (I know, I couldn't resist!), that might be reasonable to consumers.
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I can rent books for free from my local library. Why should I pay any money to rent a DRMed eBook? It's a poor value.
Now, for a purchase price, $2.50 for a non-DRMed eBook seems reasonable - depending on the author, size of the eBook, etc.