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Originally Posted by Moejoe
So let me get this right, you artificially delay a digital product in the hopes that the people who will buy a digital product will wait for 3 months, even though there would be no chance of anybody whose willing to buy a digital product waiting that long? And at the same time you stop producing paperbacks for those who don't want to buy digital? So your market is basically - people who buy hardbacks.
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Before ebooks your choice was hardcover, paperback, or not at all. I didn't hear a scream by anyone for paperbacks and hardcovers to be released simultaneously. It was expected and accepted that the paperback version would come a year later. And this is still the accepted process.
Now, because you want to read an ebook rather than a pbook you demand that they be released simultaneously. What makes for the sudden change? I don't get your intense dislike for publishers. Seems to me that a 3 month delay for a cheaper version is not unreasonable and is better than the 12 month delay that exists for paperbacks and with which you have been content for decades.
Why aren't you demanding that the hardcover, paperback, and ebook versions be released simultaneously? What is so special about ebooks other than you like them?
I'm proposing that ebooks be the paperback substitute and that the delay be reduced. Considering that there are competing interests involved, I think it is a reasonable solution. OTOH, I have no doubt that publishers would be willing to simultaneously release hardcover and ebook versions at the same high price but I don't hear any clamor for that.
At least I offer a proposal that takes into account the varied interests. Where is your suggestion that balances the competing interests?