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Old 03-27-2010, 12:28 AM   #14
Elfwreck
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Originally Posted by gastan View Post
Since there will be no paper or distribution costs with a digital edition I cannot see any moral reason to charge for a digital edition. They will still be garnering advert revenue but not incurring any delivery costs.
But every reader of the digital version is a lost full-price sale! They *must* charge as much for the e-edition or their print editions will stop selling, just like the publishers! Also, e-text is easily stolen--someone's going to copy the article into their blog and then people can read it without paying for it, so they need to charge a bit extra to cover the costs of security & sales lost to e-news piracy.

It all makes perfect sense when you consider it the right way!
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