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Originally Posted by Dulin's Books
Because as many people have stated here people want the ebook the same day as the hardcover is released or they will be "forced" to find illegitimate copies on the net.
many people here have said they will brook no delay at all - even a short one that launches the ebook a little while after the hardcover as several of the publishers have mentioned.
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The publishers want to window the ebooks *
to avoid the discount pricing.* If they'd said, "we'll release this ebook in 90 days, at the paperback price," the outrage & entitlement-issues would be much less, possibly nonexistent. Some people would still screech & insist on finding bootleg versions, but plenty would be willing to wait, just as plenty right now wait for the paperback.
Customers weren't being offered "hardcover price ebook now or mmpb price later." They were being offered "~trade pback price, sometimes full hardcover price, only." The outrage isn't at the delay; it's at the attempt to insist that ebooks are worth $15 regardless of what the public is willing to pay for them.
And the public has reacted: No, they're not, for many people. And they *do* have ways of getting them without paying that. The issue isn't with timing, it's with publishers' insistence that ebooks be benchmarked to hardcovers instead of paperbacks.