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Old 02-23-2010, 01:17 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by maggie* View Post
This may be acceptable now because ebooks are a small fraction of sales, but when ebooks make a considerable part of the market (like we all hope they will), it won't be acceptable any longer, because it will mean that ebook sales are supporting pbook costs.
This is a transition stage. Then the publishers that will thrive will be those who have done their homework and restructured their companies.
Yep, down the road it will be more of an issue to try to do that.

Personally, I'd just scale the prices with whats available in print at the time. I see no real need for e-version to be cheaper than the current print versions.

I'd have no problem paying hardcover prices for an e-book while the hardcover is the only version out, and the paper back price for an e-book once that version is out in print.

Of course, as others noted, they need to make the e-books identical and not full of typos and formatting errors etc.

Otherwise, I get the same value, more or less, out of an e-book since I mainly only read books once. I'm honestly even willing to pay a tad bit more to not have to hassle with getting rid of the physical copy after reading it.

If its one of the few books I want to keep and have around to re-read over the years, I'll pick up the best hardcover edition. But otherwise it's e-books for my leisure reading, and I have no issues with pricing windows, prices about the same as the current print version etc.
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