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Originally Posted by mcl
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I do not have a position on the release time of ebooks. I'd be happy to wait. But I am deeply opposed to pricing ebooks such that they are intended to prop up the print market, in the same way I'd be opposed to MP3s priced to prop up the CD market.
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I think you cannot see the pricing of ebooks independently form paper books. They are not propping up paper with ebook (maybe the other way around at the moment), they are however propping up the publication of a large variety of books with a smaller selection of hugely successful ones. Publishers are trying to protect content, not form. Just a result of the fact that no-one at the moment can predict who or what will become profitable.