David Weber may be a special case, since he is already a Baen author. I am certainly assuming the e-book price will come down when the paperback is available, and I am waiting for that to happen before buying the e-book.
I don't have a problem with publishers pricing e-books relative to the least expensive paper version available, I just won't buy until that version is the paperback. With the usual Baen approach of always pricing the e-book inexpensively I buy new releases immediately. In fact, I buy the monthly webscription at $15 if it contains even a single book I want to read because the other 5 books are usually good enough to make this worthwhile. I'm not sure I am doing the author's a favor with this approach though.
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