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I'm all for lower prices, but remember that you are paying for the content not the bundle of paper.
I don't think I've ever looked at two books at a bookstore and thought, "Well, I like this story better, but this other book has more pages-- must be a better value."
The marketing, editing, typesetting and author residuals still remain. I've even read in these groups that authors recieve a greater royalty from ebooks. Electronic stores also have overhead, marketing, bandwidth, equipment, development, design and tech support costs.
In this case, it is more convenient for me to have an electronic version rather than a big, heavy book that will just collect dust and take up physical space. There is the downside of ebooks having DRM though...
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