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I find the argument that ebooks “offer more” a bit strange. The fact that ebooks “offer more” has already been paid for with the purchase of a device that can read the book. The “more” is also ultimately supplied by the device manufacturer that is compensated separately.
There is no publisher except for Amazon that I know of that has contributed to ebook technology in such a way that it would justify pricing ebooks the same or only slightly lower (or even higher!!!) than paper books which are self-contained commodities that require no further investment.
It's a bit like saying a video game on a video game console should cost more than an arcade machine because the video game on your console offers you more (save games, portability, online functionality etc) and your arcade machine is plug and play but does nothing except for playing that one particular game.
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