There is however an entire market of users like me that publishers could get if they were charging less. Right now all my purchased books are used, the publish

There is however an entire market of users like me that publishers could get if they were charging less. Right now all my purchased books are used, the publisher and author get nothing for them and I buy them because they are 4-7 dollars (mass market-hard cover) at my local bookstore. My bookstore is however 30 minutes away and if I were to find an ebook version for 4 dollars you can bet your ass I'm buying that copy, but right now my kindle is a project gutenberg ereader. I did buy two books on my kindle when I first got it, but about a month after my kindle gift the publishers decided that 5.99-7.99 for older books and 9.99 for new books was too little and I went back to used. Edit: Also right now the pirate market for books is growing at an amazing rate because a large amount of users can't justify the 15-20 dollars for some ebooks but still want to use their ereaders.