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Originally Posted by ficbot
With that said, I do pay for my books, and I do support the authors whose work I enjoy by other efforts as well. If I didn't "care" about the authors, I would be downloading off the darknet  But publishers and authors need to be more realistic and work out a fair process (for example, matching the lowest paper prices so we don't have $6 mass market paperbacks selling in ebook for $20). I am okay with windowing and such as long as they really do play fair and lower the prices later. But they are not doing that yet, so people don't believe them when they say they really will lower the price later. |
Then we're on the same page on the pricing front. An e-book should NEVER be more than the cheapest print version available. It should be the same as that or a bit lower if the savings in cost can be passed on while giving the author the same dollar amount per copy sold (the publishers costs and efforts are reduced with ebooks vs. print, not the author's).
Most of the Kindle books I've bought that have been stuff available in mass market paper backs have been priced the same as those paperbacks are on Amazon. If not, I've not bought them. I won't got illegally download them, I just vote with my wallet by not making the purchase and buying something to read that's priced fairly.