On Feb 26, 2013, at 11:39 AM, Paddyjack <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Nick Andrews <[email protected]> wrote: > I didn't mean to imply there are no costs at all associated with the ebooks, > but many of the ones people have listed are shared costs over thousands and > millions of ebooks and in total likely under a dollar, not costing anywhere > near the extra $20 per ebook. And as those costs are a tiny fraction of > printing, storing and shipping an actual physical, real book, I refuse to pay > the excess and will just buy the ebooks when they are on special and continue > to buy the real books when they come out. > > > > Alright, on this you are back to my original argument, to which Ray answered > that price are fixed by demands. I'm also against high prices of ecopies when > a book is out but eh, if people are willing to pay for that, more power to > them. Myself I wait for a better price, there is so much things on my waiting > list to read anyway, I can wait :) > > PJ People waited for a long time for the cost of CDs to "come down" to where cassettes were ($12 v. $7, more or less) and that never happened. People were so amped up to have that level of recording quality they just kept paying. Now with digital downloads at $1.99 and albums at $9.99, albums are now cheaper by a significant margin than they were 16 years ago if you factor in inflation. it's all market driven. Best, R,E,F, ---- www.crydee.com Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained away by stupidity.
