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In thr book industry its the same difference with hardbacks and paperback. Selling a hardback gives the customer the illusion that they are getting more thus the huge price differences are warranted.
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X, I'm one of those mislead consumers who thinks he gets more value for his money by buying hardcover rather than paperback.
I only buy hardcover p books, and I buy quite a few of them at my local B&N. In 2009, I bought nearly 100 hardcovers. The value is the life expectancy of the book; that is, whereas my paperbacks, when I used to buy them many years ago, began to fall apart after the first reading and became "ratty" looking quickly, my hardcovers remain pristine and thus are in good enough condition to hand down to my grandchildren, perhaps even to retain as collectibles in some cases. Which is, BTW, another value. Some hardcovers actually do increase in value because of their longevity, for example my first edition of Sinclair Lewis'
It Can't Happen Here. Haven't yet met a paperback version that did (where the book was published in both soft and hard cover forms).
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the publishers have learned from history and are fighting hard to prevent this if amazon wins that means better prices for us all if the publishers win we not only pay the high prices of paper books but also lose the right of ownership
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I think eventually you will see publishing devolve into two forms: the hardcover version and the ebook version; paperbacks will go the way of the dinosaur. Some books simply are much better in p form than e form, at least in the current state of formatting capabilities and ebook reading devices, and I think there will always be people who see value in hardcovers -- and not because of the smell of the paper.
