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Originally Posted by issybird
(Emphasis again mine.)
You keep trying to get away with hot-button words. What do you mean by "inflated"? "Price that some customers are willing to pay, designed to maximize revenues"?
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I think "inflated" means "far above and beyond the cost of producing and distributing". I do think it's ridiculous that e-books supposedly cost more than regular books but greed is what it is.
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Originally Posted by issybird
And if finances don't permit, then they get to wait just as with every other consumer good someone can't afford/can't justify.
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Or not. This won't effect piracy. All this will do is make libraries more irrelevant.
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Piracy exists. But why the torturous attempts to gloss it over?
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Things like this make piracy an attractive option. Some people don't feel they should wait when they can get it for free. This is simple economics but the culture of the forum makes it taboo to speak of it. At least as far as I've seen.