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Originally Posted by Zorz
As I said in another thread, I simply wont buy an ebook if it has DRM or if the price is similar to the paper version. I have had my kindle for half a year and have not bought one item, mainly because everything is way too expensive and I can likely get the physical copy for cheaper. In all honestly, I think ebooks should come for free with physical books as a courtesy. So as an example, if I want a recent bestseller, I can buy it from Amazon, I now physically own the book and if I want I can read it on my ereader. Or if you want you can opt out of getting the paper version. Because there is no way I am every going to pay $10 for an ebook when the physical hardcover is only $10. It really just wont happen. Maybe ~$2 is a fair price, but never the same price.
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Personally, I think the same or a tad bit cheaper is a fair price for an e-book (without DRM anyway).
As has been shown in various threads on here over time, the cost of printing and shipping a book is very low to a publisher--and that's the only difference in terms of cost per copy between an e-book and paper book.
They still have to pay the same for editing the text, marketing the book, paying the author's advance and royalty etc. So ebooks really don't save publishers all that much money--especially compared to mass market paperbacks which are very cheap to print etc.