I distrust the old guard like hachette telling me I need to pay higher prices because it is "good for the industry"
I buy books on Amazon all the time for well under 5 bucks. To me a couple "k" kilobits of info is well worth that. If they had a larger overhead of shipping and manufacturing costs etc.(imagine all the energy and dollars it costs to cut down a tree and then get it into a form to be made into a book) I can understand a price of 15 bucks. But you can't expect rational people to believe a trade paperback that sells at 19.95 costs the same to get to a customer as an eBook copy of the very same book and thus should sell for the same price.
The Old guard book publishers like Hachette are trying to protect their out-of-date business model much in the same way Big Music and Big Movie did when digital music and movie formats came out.
They will lose...