>>>Hate to tell you this, but I can honestly say that I had a *small* level of influence on some publishers doing this.
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>>>Back in late 2007 I made a recommendation to a few publishers to increase the price of e-books. (They'd been considering it anyway, because of the rampant issue of e-book pirating).
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>>>In my opinion, an e-book should be the same price as a regular book. What you lose in one value (hard copy), you gain in other value (easier to carry around 5 ebooks than 5 printed copies)
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>>I still prefer hard copy.
>>I love to have them, hate to read eBook.
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>I agree.

I like to have my cake and eat it too :) I like to have both, read the hard copy and put it on my shelf (to look like I know something) and then use the eBook to quickly look up details when I need them.