It&#x27;s still a $5 difference. If you look at most recent books, there won&#x27;t be that difference between prices. In some cases, the ebook is even more expensive. That&#x27;s just greed.<p>Prices are not linked to costs but to what the market will bear; in an electronic media market where prices will always be anchored to zero at one end (thanks to piracy and intangible goods), what the market will bear is inevitably less than what it used to be.<p>Customers understand this more intuitively than media producers who grew up in very different times.