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Originally Posted by raac
yes, I agree with you, but it seems the publishers may not see it that way.
Personally, I feel that if you buy physical copy then you should have the right to download the e-book.
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I could go along with that, but most of the arguments I've seen in favor of ebooks being cheaper than pbooks assume that you *won't* buy the pbook. So how do you feel about making the publisher eat the costs when nothing except the cheaper ebook sells?
Mcl's arguments *might* be true for books in a publisher's backlist. Those have already been published & pbooks sold to recoup the publisher's investment. (It doesn't matter whether or not sales actually have recouped that-the investment has already been combined & amortized over multiple books to account for that. So, if the pbook has been published & sold, then publishing the ebook incurs minimal cost, as Mcl says.) The problem is that most people don't want ebooks from the publisher's backlist-they want the *new* books to come out in ebook format. And that, IMO, is a different matter. In that case the publishing costs should be shared between the pbook & ebook versions-since they're both 'published' at the same time.