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Originally Posted by HansTWN
While we all agree that an ebook should be somewhat cheaper than a pbook we have to be realistic. $1 below the cheapest new paperback should be reasonable.
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Why? The ebook doesn't cost a couple of dollars to produce and ship. Handing one to me doesn't prevent them from handing one to you. Why should just-under-paperback cost be the price, considering it costs substantially less than the paperback to produce?
Several authors are making a fortune on $1-4 ebooks. Most of them are relatively unknown outside of ebook circles. Why should we believe that big-name authors need to sell at more than that to make similar fortunes?
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If you really just want to read it once and then get rid of it, why don't you check out the ebook from a library and pay nothing?
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Because library ebook selections are (1) tiny, because libraries don't have a lot of money to put towards limited-appeal technology, and (2) drawn from a very limited pool of available books. Two of the Big Six won't allow library ebooks at all, and Harper Collins has decided library ebooks should expire after a year of use. Small publishing houses & self-publishers aren't available to libraries at all, because the DRM hassles are too much for them.