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Originally Posted by Dumas
I think the reason they wouldn't release it for a price well in excess of the HB is because they would have a very difficult time making an argument for value.
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Why would they have to make an argument for value? No one has to buy the book, if it's too expensive for them. They can just say "this is our price", why not? They can't do anything about piracy anyway, and not releasing the ebook at all doesn't make it less likely to appear on the darknet, if it's popular.
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Originally Posted by Dumas
The publishers' difficulty is maintaining the perception of value in a state of abundance. Instead of working and thinking in the state of abundance and what it can do for them, they are doing everything they can to create scarcity. People are generally resistant to change, and publishers are people too.
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But by not releasing the ebook when they can do so, they create absence - and don't get a single dollar out of it.