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Originally Posted by rhadin
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?
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I think you get me wrong - I AM demanding that they're all released at the same time. I am UNWILLING to wait. I WILL NOT accept artificial delays on digital products. If you have a digital product to sell, then why aren't you (as in the you of the publishers) selling it to me? If Book A comes out tomorrow in Hardback and not digital, Book A will soon be replaced in my want list, and I'll guarantee you that there won't be an impulse purchase of Book A.
You have my suggestion, it's very simple; if you have a product to sell to me, sell it to me, don't pussyfoot around with staggered releases in the hopes that you're going to sell more or sell at a higher price or whatever the hell that strategy is supposed to do.