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Every time i see this announcement i can not help to highlight that the same price for digital and print version is a non-sense and different prices between digital version for US and Foreign is a double-non-sense. Just remove the Foreign option if you want to address the NA market only.
Why is it non-sense for a different price for digital and print? Does it take them less time to do the one vs. the other? You're paying for their time, not their production costs. Every time I see the announcement I think "Man, I really need to subscribe to them", and then just pick the issue up next time I'm at a shop that has them........
Digital copies are cheaper to produce since there isn't the cost of the paper or the cost of paying the printer...
I'm going to jump in on this again. I would believe it is also a lot cheaper to ship the digital copy. Since I live in Canada once the digital edition costs the same here as in the USA I would be inclined to subscribe to the digital version. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
What I do not understand is that on some books, the digital costs more than the trade paperback edition. Look at Amazon and you will see what I mean. I do not understand how not printing a copy, a digital edition costs more than printing, and mailing a hard copy.
Marketing has more to do with how much people will pay than how much it costs to produce. The profit margins probably differ substantially between printed and electronic versions. As more and more people try to "go paperless", expect the price of doing so to increase, because more people will be willing to pay the bigger difference. Only real competition brings prices down to production costs + marginal profit.
