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[tanaise]

Dear Amazon:

Explain to me why I should pay the same price for an electronic book as for the print book? Did you do any research into this at all? Cause I'm working for a textbook company, and they're charging 60% of print costs for the ebooks, and I think above all else, we can trust a textbook company to know just how much money people will pay for their product.

Of course, it's a moot point anyways, as I'm not in the market for an e-reader (since I haven't yet figured out what you'd do with the books after you'd read them. Sure, they'll take up less space in my room, but what about re-reading them later on?), but this is not the way to change my mind.

Thanks, me.

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[cissa.livejournal.com]

Yep. That's pretty much my take on it.

I see ebooks as being an effective alternative to libraries and/or outfits like Paperback Swap. And this means- the books are disposable. And to me that means that they ought to cost $1-2 or so, and after i read them I'll delete them, and no harm done. And if I adore them, I'll buy a print copy.

But- the ebook itself is disposable, and thus needs to be cheap. The DRM crap that means that even if I buy it I may not be able to read it in 2+ years emphasizes this.

I'm not going to buy ebooks until and unless they recognize that they are NOT the same a s a print copy; they are more disposable' and they price them on that basis. Which makes sense anyway, since it's not like they[re needing to invest the same way that they do for print, or store them physically, etc.

I've read a few books (free) on my PDA, and it's handy sometimes- but ain't no way I'm paying hardcover or even paperback prices for that.