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Originally Posted by phenomshel
I wouldn't mind it so much if they'd release the ebook on the same day as the hardback, even at the hardback price....and then take the ebook price down with the paperback release. What I hate is not being able to get the ebook AT ALL, if it's delayed. Some authors I like enough to pay hardback prices for ebooks just to get it faster. (For example, I paid over $21.00 last year for Dana Stabenow's Whisper to the Blood in ebook on the same day the hardback was released).
Another pet peeve is things that have been out in paperback since oh, say, 2004, and they're still charging $17.00 for the ebook.
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Exactly! What is so hard about charging the current lowest price for a pbook for the ebook? Initially that would be the hardback price. It would then go down to the paperback price, once the paperback was released.
How is this anything but a win-win situation? The publishers get more sales. The consumers get the ebooks they want, when they want. If they want them sooner, they pay more for them.
And ditto on the pet peeve. I want a book published in 2003 that I can buy for $4 used ($0.01 + $3.99 shipping) but I would have to fork out $16.06 to get it in an ebook. What sense is there in that?
-Marcy