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Originally Posted by rlauzon
So if you CHOOSE to create your own eBookstore, those are costs you have CHOSEN to incur and are not a reason to overprice your eBooks.
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You lost me with this argument. If you don't "create" your own ebook store, and you want to sell ebooks, then you have to pay someone else to run the ebookstore for you. They will charge you not only their own overhead costs, but also will want to make a profit, so that will increase, not decrease, your overhead of running a store.
Regarding DRM, I want to re-iterate that I 100% agree with you that DRM is holding back the entire ebook market. It adds major costs (drm fees, support costs), is not consumer friendly, etc. I've been arguing with publishers about it for longer than I care to recall. They won't budge, because their attorneys will not let them budge. They are afraid of lawsuits from authors and share holders if major piracy did occur.
Without DRM ebooks could be moderately less expensive than print books. But not 1/4 of the price as you say. You're way off with that. Even if expense ratios allowed that, the publishers wouldn't price them that way because they would be afraid of cannabalizing print book sales.