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One of the arguments I've heard for why ebooks are so expensive is to keep the printed version's perceived value high. If ebooks are 1/3 the price of the printed version, given time no one will put value on the printed version and sales will drop.
Because of the volume, printing books is relatively cheap. It (allegedly) adds little or nothing to the final cost of the book but there are lots of middle-men that get profit from it. None of those people want the printed book industry to go away which is why the prices are such a mess.
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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