Not meaning to hijack the thread, but this is an ongoing war.
*Also add : no trees needed, no paper manufacturing and shipping, no warehousing, no remainers, no shipping costs, and yet the "publishers" make more money than the authors, and the "books" have not dropped in price.
The greedy bastards are going the way of the RIAA. Good riddance.
Well, I still prefer paper books for a lot of reasons, but it appears more and more authors are trying to use the eBook delivery method to keep more of the money for themselves. I like the way Baen is doing things with the Honor Harrington books — the hardcover books have been including a CD of the books in PDF and HTML formats.
The fsand.com site someone pointed me to earlier is a case in point. You are buying directly from the author (although there is a wierd multi-level marketing angle to it.) I don’t notice the eBook prices are any cheaper though. Still $7.99 for an eBook, which is what a paperback would be at retail.