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Originally Posted by Deneb
There is also one issue that persist no matter what between publishers and some of the consumers: they hope to force us to choose paper instead of ebook...I don't want any pbook any more. There is no fanatism on my part, I like to read on my ebook reader, I don't have the place to store pbook any more, especially those I read only once, (and it's a majority by far)...I'm not going back to paper no matter what they do. But, I'm not paying an unfair price for it. They should start to respect the ebook consumers for what they are, a new market and stop treating them as an anomaly to be ereased or a trend that will pass.
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I think you're wrong.
I don't think it's as simple as saying they want to force people to buy paper rather than electrons, but rather that they want people to buy the format they make the most profit on first.
So they want to sell hardcovers before ebooks because they are more profitable, but they would rather sell ebooks before paperbacks because ebooks are more profitable than paperbacks.
Selling cheap ebooks simultaneously with hardcovers reduces their potential profit so they don't like it. Selling cheap ebooks simultaneously with paperbacks doesn't hit their bottom line the same way.