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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The cost to make eBooks is cheaper then a hardcover. So I'm not paying that much for an eBook that is still in hardcover. If we go on the premise that the extra $$$ is going to the hardcover binding, then eBooks should be less then paperback prices from day one as there is no expensive binding to pay for.
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Yes, and I think a lot of people feel this way. The truth is, though, that the hardcover price is really an "early adopter" price more than anything.
Personally, because I need to import English language books here, I am willing to pay the price of a full paperback copy - it saves me time, mony, and polluting shipping. I can live with that.
What doesn't make sense to me is paying
more for the electronic copy. My friend Ethan just published a book, and the Amazon price for the hardcover is $16,
but the Kindle version is going for $19. I don't know how that makes any sense. They haven't even told him how many of the ebooks he has sold, much less how they set the price, so I can't provide any more information.
I think, if publishers are going to an "early adopter", "regular price" differential, I can live with that. But ebooks need, at minimum, parity with pbooks.