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Old 07-30-2007, 05:31 PM   #13
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The things that I list have to form a component of the price of the eBook, just as they do for a paper book.
I didn't contest that.

But the idea that publisher has to provide such services is simply old thinking. And the idea that such services justify paper prices for eBooks is not realistic.

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Simply economics.
We already know that the vast majority of the cost of a pBook is related to its physical-ness. Remove that physical-ness and the costs should drop accordingly.

Simple economics.
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