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Originally Posted by Lemurion
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.
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I get their way of thinking and your right in what you say. What I don't get is why they think they loose money on ebooks.
All I'm asking is to pay the price of a book minus all the cost that are not in the ebook. That mean everything untill they send the pdf to the printer. They still have the same author fee, the same editing fee, the same everything but we don't pay for a service (printing, shipping etc) that isn't there. It's not "cheap ebook" vs "expencive paperbook" it's letting people choose the format they want for the same thing.
Up to now, they have tried to convince us of "hidden fee in the making of ebooks that make them almost more expencive to make as a HC". That's what they have been trying, that's what I don't accept.
There's no decrease of value of a book in my mind just the need of a fair trade.