&gt; I feel that in many cases, ebook prices are just ripping me off.<p>The material costs of a physical book are probably well under $0.50, and the manufacturing is done by automated machines so that should add very little to the marginal cost. Shipping and storage could very well be the biggest contribution to the marginal cost of a physical book.<p>The costs for a book other than manufacturing, shipping, and storing should be about the same for ebooks and physical books.<p>Thus as long as an ebook is maybe $1 or so less than the print edition it seems I&#x27;m getting a fair deal (or rather I&#x27;m getting as fair a deal as I&#x27;d get with the print edition...). Most Kindle books that I&#x27;ve been interested in were priced under the physical editions by at least that much.