[delphidb96]

Originally Posted by mcl

http://consumerist.com/2010/02/publi...or-ebooks.html


As despicable as I find that statement, at least this guy's being intellectually honest, rather than trying to paint higher ebook prices as some necessity of he industry, or saying that the authors will starve.

Really? Hunh. Nope. *I* bought both my Kindle 2s for less than $50 - including shipping! (One was less than $40!) Of course I had to then ship them off for warranty repairs, which cost me a time-delay before I could use them, but total cost for the two was under $90. At the estimated $15/bestseller-ebook pricing policy, that means my Kindles only delayed the purchase of SIX ebooks. I read about ten times that many per year. So if I have to pay $15/ebook instead of $10, the increase will cost me an additional $300/year. Or else I must cut back my ebook purchases by 33%. Seems to me that his argument is flawed. I'm sure those 20 authors whose books I won't be purchasing can console themselves that at least they *would have* earned more money from these lost sales. Hope they like eating a lot of mac-n-cheese!

Derek