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Originally Posted by MyDigitalParadis
Look at MP3's. They are sold at say 1$ each. to buy each song from a whole album costs more than the CD. But! You only buy the songs you want. 2-3$ intead of 14$...
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Do you know, I hadn't thought of it that way. You're right, though; I save money on iTunes because I only pay for the songs I want. For some odd reason, I was going along thinking that my savings had to do with the music publishers not having to pay for printing labels, packaging, etc; my reasoning was obviously flawed. I really wasn't understanding too much of this discussion until I came to this conclusion.
Books are expensive. CD's are expensive. Don't even get me started on printed music (Church organist, here. 3 or more staff music = expensive). It's good to be able to save money where you can, but the only way I can see to do this with the books would be to just select the chapters you want to buy. With academic books it might just work. With your favorite mystery.....not so much.
Still, if anyone wants to lower their ebook prices, I'd be glad to support them.