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Originally Posted by rhadin
You can't divorce the Stephen King pbook from the Stephen King ebook in your economic model. They must fit together. They are the same product in just a different format. Consequently, you cannot act as if ebook pricing can be established using economic model A and the pbook pricing using model B. There isn't a failure in the logic line; there is a failure to accept that the products are not divorceable from each other.
The King books are a poor choice to use for the argument over pricing because of its high sales volume. It is an atypical product, just like the Harry Potter books were atypical for children's books. A better subject for the debate are the low and mid list books whose sales are more usual for publishing.
You can't take it from the environmental perspective unless you are to suddenly stop creating pbooks altogether and only create ebooks, something that is no more realistic than saying you and everyone else should heat and cool their home with wind power starting tomorrow and all other forms of energy will cease effective tomorrow. The switch from p to e will take time and until that occurs, you have to look at a book as a single product in various forms, not each form as a standalone proposition.
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there's a hell of a lot of "cant's" in there that are being conquered everyday. your arguments sound like hackneyed business school arguments from people unwilling to change. this is a new market and needs to be treated as such. I would think an intelligent publisher would start up a new division just for ebooks and let that ball roll and see what happens. it's a new tomorrow and thinking MUST change!