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Message:: [QUOTE="Detecto92, post: 1759020, member: 75105"]Actually, one could argue they are depriving me of hard-earned income by charging such an ungodly high amount for it. Most publishers want just as much for a book as they do a digital copy. Paper costs serious money. Yet you pay $15 for a physical book, and $10 for the digital edition. What are you exactly paying for? It cost pennies to publish a book digitally. Sure, there is the initial cost, but the per-copy cost is next to nothing. The author tends not to make much, in fact most authors make about 10% per copy sold. You don't have actual paper you can hold in your hand, you have organized bits of 1s and 0s on your computer display. That sure is a lot of money to pay for an intangible asset that becomes completely worthless once your hard drive takes a dump.[/QUOTE]