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Within reason, the price of ebooks doesn't bother me as long as they seem fair, by that I mean that they should at least slightly undercut the price of the main paper edition that is available at the time whether thats the hardback on initial release or later on the paperback price.
All too often, especially with older books you see ebook versions priced higher than the paperback price, presumably because it is newly released as an ebook and the publishers mistakenly think that its price shouldn't be affected by the real price of its paper equivalent.
Take the hhgtg books on waterstones as an example the ebook prices are higher than the individual paperbacks and then to compound the idiocy this is a book that has been commonly available in omnibus editions for a decade for marginally more than the cost of one ebook.
The publishers need to realise that an ebook is not like some extra special director's cut edition of an existing work and as such their customers are aware enough of relative value that they are not going to pay like it is.
If they manage to find ways to truly present something that people found equivalent to such things then all credit to them, but ebooks of back catalogue works are just another reprint of a cheap paperback and should be priced that way even if somebody has to spend a little time scanning it in.
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