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Old 08-20-2012, 03:11 PM   #7
Ashartus
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Originally Posted by cDnStealth View Post
I thought I'd check this out so I looked at the price of a new book I picked up last week at Chapters. Sure enough, the Kindle version is $6.00 more expensive than the paperback on Amazon.com. I've always thought that digital copies of things should cost much less than a physical copy. They don't have to print it, ship it or store it.
From what I've read, the costs associated with the "physical" book (paper, printing, transport, storage) are around $2 or so for a paperback and $3-$4 for a hardcover, so I'd like to see ebooks that much less than the hard copies. A lot of them are priced reasonably, but there are definitely a lot of ebooks that are priced too high IMO. I don't mind paying $9.99 for a book that is out in paperback, but I see some around $15.99 even after the paperback has been released.

I've been following a lot of the developments in the ebook industry, and basically concluded that the "big 6" publishers, Apple and Amazon are all pretty much evil, while authors and readers get the shaft.
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