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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
So, let me get this straight.
A new ebook comes out, concurrent with the hardcover. The hardcover officially costs $30, gets discounted to say $15 + $3 shipping and handling. The ebook starts at $15 (no shipping, handling or tax). 1 year later, the trade paper comes out at $12 + $2 s&h, the ebook drops to $10.
This is such terrible behavior that it licenses people to skip out from paying all the people who produced the book, including the author?
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Yep.
'Cuz I don't buy hardbacks or trade paperbacks unless it is an absolute favorite author and I can get a good discount.
I read the blog post linked
here - he's
not promising the ebooks will always be a little lower than the print price. And he seems to be hinting that many of them will never be at or less than the price of the mass market paperbacks.
Do I want the authors harmed by this? Of course not. But I will not be strong-armed by publishers simply because I do not have 1 more spare foot of space in my home for print books. Or if I just prefer digital over print.
I spent over $2000 on ebooks last year alone (horrifying truth discovered when I did my taxes). The library can have the funds I would have spent on the ones I want, but are priced at $15. I'll hit the library.