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Old 02-01-2010, 04:28 PM   #26
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Originally Posted by kjk View Post
You are making the assumption that costs are being borne by printed books, so eBooks are a "freebie". Maybe the industry is just getting ready for the future where that isn't a given-Bezos, for one, is pushing for that now.

No, I'm making the assumption that the additional costs for an ebook version of an existing, current physical book are minimal.

The difference here is that my assumption is correct.

In the future, who knows? But in that future, I can promise you that today's cost structures won't exist, so the entire argument is invalid at that point.

But we weren't discussing some nebulous future. We were discussing the present.
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