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Originally Posted by maggie*
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.
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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.