[Steven Lyle Jordan]

Originally Posted by cherdman

The best discussion that I've found on this topic can be found at Charles Stross's website:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...ook_marke.html

Brace yourself though. This discussion is as long as some small novels.

Yeah... like this one's short.

Originally Posted by BooksForABuck

As I commented over at Teleread, I think there are a couple of things going on here...

Most of what this boils down to is publishers setting prices, without necessarily being cognizant of the market value for e-books. Not that that's completely their fault... due to all the multiple formats, foot-dragging, and industry paranoia, no one's managed to set those values yet.

We'll need standardization to set in, before a reliable set of values can be set. The publishers need to be sharp, because the little guys (like me and Rob P) could set the price values first, leaving the big pubs to scramble to be able to meet it... or to prove that their product is so much better that it deserves to be more... or to find other ways to reduce costs or subsidize e-books (like through advertising, as mentioned in another thread).