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You guys are completely over analyzing the pricing aspect. The price is set on the basis of what the market will bear to maximize revenues for the seller (not necessarily maximize the revenue of the eBook itself). It doesn't matter if bits are cheaper and blah blah blah. If everyone is wiling to pay $5 for an eBook, it doesn't matter if the physical version is cheaper or not, that is a good indicator of where the price will be set.
Commented Apr 10, 2012 on Books: Bits vs. Atoms at Coding Horror
Books: Bits vs. Atoms
I adore words, but let's face it: books suck. More specifically, so many beautiful ideas have been helplessly trapped in physical made-of-atoms books for the last few centuries. How do books suck? Let me count the ways: They are heavy. They take up too much space. They have to be printed. ...
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