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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
Give me the ebook 6 months before the physical street date, even unedited, as long as it's DRM-free I am - demonstably - potentially a customer at $15. Waiting until the street date and then offering it to me for over $10? lolno.
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So all publishers need to do is put out the ebook a little in advance of the hardback and you'd pay $15? I think that's what publishers need to hear - ways they can add value to their ebooks on release to justify a higher price. (Personally there's no way in hell I'd pay $15 for an uncorrected proof, but it obviously works for some people.) The article's certainly right that publishers need to work on adding value to their ebooks with proper covers and additional material, and they definitely need to stop the practice of setting ebooks from pre-production proofs.
But yeah, I can see why the idea of spending $$$ on hardware in order to save $$$ on content pisses some publishers off.