See, I don't mind paying on the order of $4-6 for an additional ebook copy because I know that a book, even an ebook, isn't just raw information. It's also something that requires physical labor: even an ebook requires that you pay someone to do the physical design (font choices and etc. are not necessarily the same in an ebook as in the paper version, nor should they be for readability), someone to lay it out, and someone to proof the new layout, plus the bandwidth to serve it to the e-reader, plus, in the case of newer e-readers such as the Kindle or the Nook, the permanent storage and synchronization space for not only the text but also for my bookmarks, annotations, comments, last page read data, etc. Those things are not free, and I'm willing to pay a little extra for the extra convenience of having them handy.
(Having compared well-laid-out commercial ebooks with free raw text from Project Gutenberg, I'm actually happy to pay a little more. Free raw text is ugly, doesn't link properly, and is often badly paginated.)
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Date: 2010-03-23 05:07 pm (UTC)(Having compared well-laid-out commercial ebooks with free raw text from Project Gutenberg, I'm actually happy to pay a little more. Free raw text is ugly, doesn't link properly, and is often badly paginated.)