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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
It's slightly absurd to suggest that Macmillan plans to "salt the ground" by bumping up prices for new ebooks to $15 instead of $10. You might as well suggest that Hollywood is "killing" the home video market by charging more for a Blu-Ray disc than for a DVD.
Yes, some of us understand basic economics.
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Then some of you had best go check the level of blu-ray sales now compared to the level of DVD sales before blu-ray came out. I think you'll find it rather lower. Why? Price. Basic economics.
I was a huge DVD collector. I own over 1500 DVDs. I owned one of the first home DVD players that was available. I was buying DVDs when it was possible to keep up with owning every DVD printed just buy buying several every month. It always amused me that my copy of A Boy and His Dog was one of the first DVDs out.
Blu-ray? I own TWO. I've owned a Blu-Ray player since they first hit the market (Yes, I was one of those people scrambling to buy a $700 PS3 on launch day.)
Why? Price. At or under $10 made sense to me for DVD. Between $10 and $20 makes no sense to me for Blu-Ray.
So, instead, I rent.