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[QUOTE=Cthulhu;84207]rlauzon: said:
The unit cost of an ebook is zero only after a "book" is produced. There are advertising costs, research costs, editorial costs. Any labour that goes into producing something that comes from a publisher needs to be compensated........
And the REST of the story is that these costs should be no more than for a plain old ordinary book. So, where is our discount for printing and transportation costs, and all of the handling costs associated with paper books?
E-boooks are convenient, but I am not going to pay more for one than for a paper-based book. Nor am I going to buy the same content twice. Example- Last year I shelled out almost $70 for Singh's 'Mac OSX Internals.' A month later I found a pdf version- $49. The publisher should give me that for free, but they would not. And it's DRM'd.
IMHO, book piracy- like music piracy- exists. But the way to deal with it is not to piss off the people who are actually buying your product. And publishers are pissing off buyers of books and e-books.
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