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Switching back on topic, I may pay up to the $15 for certain very anticipated titles, but by doing so, I would want the the publishers to agree to drop the ebook price down to a reasonable percentage of the pb price when the book transitions to pb. Their track record on this has been appalling and my major ebook complaint all the way back to the Rocket eBook.
I recall a number of us MRs posting titles where the ebook price exceeded the available pb price on the Sony store back when the PRS-500 was launched. Sony initially adjusted prices and then stopped saying it was up to the publishers to make the price changes.
In the meantime, while I may be starved for excellent mass-market and lowbrow detective fiction, I have enough lengthy and scholarly non-fiction to keep me busy for a few years. Not to mention a very nicely stocked public library with oodles of epubs.
$15 is not a lot for a book, but at 50% over the 9.99 I was willing to cough up for some impulse buys, I'm afraid the publishers will be getting fewer of my dollars overall.
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