Agreed. This is probably the first time I've seen anything on Ebook pricing and not have to hit my head against the desk because people are being retarded with

Agreed. This is probably the first time I've seen anything on Ebook pricing and not have to hit my head against the desk because people are being retarded with people calling for all ebooks to cost $.99 because they're cheap assholes, or people completely misunderstanding the fact that printing and distribution costs only attribute 20-30% of the cost of selling a book. (Retailer takes 30%. Printing/distribution, essentially the dead tree portion takes 30%, the publisher takes 30% to pay for the editors, etc., and finally the writer gets 10% (and their agent gets about 1%, or 10% of the writers cut.) Ebook pricing has been anticompetitive outside the Amazon market. Of paper books I own, I've (or my wife has) read over 90% of them. 5% are in my to-read list, and probably the last 5% are books that I've gotten out of nostalgia, or ones that I've said "I'm getting this one for when I have kids". That last 5% mainly consist of books that I personally haven't cracked open and read that book that's on my shelf, most that I've found at garage sales that are in great condition and I've said "I love that book, I'd rather see it go on my shelf than into a dump" and yeah when my kid gets old enough, that copy of Enders Game I found for $0.25 is so getting stuck in their hand. (supposing the printed word still exists in the next decade and kids understand how to read off of the mysterious bound fibres called 'books')