Has anyone considered that the costs that are actually being saved by the publishing houses when selling ebooks don't really have anything to do with the authors or even the actual publication of the book? They are the costs of physically printing and distributing (shipping) the book and the costs incurred by the book sellers. Since selling ebooks is so much more cost effective, efficient and, as stated previously, environmentally friendly, those reductions in costs should be passed on to the consumer! I would like to give the publishers the benefit of the doubt and think that they are as stuck in a bad situation as we consumers are due to committments to the other publishing sectors - I tend to have a bit of a Pollyanna view of things
. Of course, it could all just come down to Greed as written by nrappalo!!
kaz