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I think publishers have good reasons to maintain the prices of printed books. It is just a mater of differentiating their product from the common kindle ebook s

I think publishers have good reasons to maintain the prices of printed books. It is just a mater of differentiating their product from the common kindle ebook sold on Amazon. In fact, my experience (as the experience of many others) as that the average self-published kindle ebook is a very low quality product. What is crazy is that Amazon wants publishers to price their product similarly to these low quality "books" just because they happen to share the same distribution model. I think this doesn't make any sense and it would be a race to the bottom for everyone involved.

toyg 11y ago
I'm sorry, the difference is not as big as you think. The average ebook from very respectable publishers is awful in terms of editing and formatting.
- Turing_Machine 11y ago
  Yes. There's some horrible, horrible work out there from "respectable" publishing houses. You don't get to claim "quality" when you've obviously been too cheap to pay someone to rekey the damned book. Of course, the quality of paper books is also horrible nowadays. Crap paper, crap printing, crap binding.