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I'm not talking about what should or shouldn't happen. I'm saying that if they don't figure out a good pricing model, ebooks won't sell. It is marketing.
Right now they don't seem to know if they want to sell ebooks or not (and I am not sure if the "they" is Amazon, the publishers, or both). Pricing an ebook higher than a hardbound copy is just insane. In general the price is lower. But not always. So, is an ebook worth more, or less, than a pbook? As a potential Kindle buyer, what can I expect to pay, on top of the price of the hardware?
A pricing scheme, such as "ebook = pbook x 0.80" makes sense to people. We expect paperbacks to be less than hardcovers.
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