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Originally Posted by delphidb96
I don't have a problem with as-high-as-paper-book pricing *IF* the author gets a larger share of the sales pie for the ebook sales.
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This. That the publishers are getting $15+ for an e-book when the author might get pennies is obscene.
The publishers (for the most part) do not understand technology and are afraid of it. They've gotten rid of midlist books, so they aren't supporting that many books with the blockbusters. They are afraid their cash cow will go away, so they impose DRM on their books and charge outrageous amounts of money for rentals (and they are rentals, as has been pointed out).
E-books are a great opportunity to pay authors more. Yes, the publishers need to do promotion (which they don't do on most books, anyway) and such, but cheating the people who create the things you sell while annoying the people you sell them to is just not a sustainable business model.