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Originally Posted by Boston
I am afraid that I will eventually to go back to buying bargain priced and used paper books because of pricing. I have really come to love the convenience and ease-of-reading on my ebook readers.
However, I can't see paying ebook prices that are the same/higher then the paper version is on sale. I've already seen the pricing of some books going this way and now my fear is that it will be more the norm.
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I'm with you. The more and more this thing plays out, the less and less I want to be anywhere near any of it. I actually priced up some new shelves earlier on and looked into the best second-hand paperback prices online. Didn't realise how cheap second-hand paperbacks have become (having been reading mainly on my reader) but some of them are pennies and there's a much wider range available. I mean, I could abandon e-reading right now, come back in 5 years and we'd still be in the same mess. Overpriced and DRM'd, authors still getting the shitty end of the stick and not complaining about the smell. As a creative industry publishing is even more busted than music, at least there you get some decent independent labels who care about the artists, and artists who don't behave like silent children and will actually stand up and be counted.
The whole mess was bankrupt from the get go.