24 people want Publishers to stop charging so much for ebooks.

The concept of publishers charging more for ebooks than the price for which they can be purchased on Amazon.com is absolute bonkers to me. I just looked up four books to buy for my Kindle. The first, Vaclav & Lena, was published within the last month. For $12.99 I can get this book delivered to me wirelessly. For $1.59 more I can have the hardcover edition shipped to me free within 2 business days... for me to keep. Forever. The next three books I looked up were considerably older than Vaclav & Lena, had paperback editions out already and thus, I figured, would be much cheaper at this point on Kindle. Wrong. In all three instances it is actually CHEAPER for me to buy the physical, honest-to-God book than it is the intangible digital version. What is the What, a book written by Dave Eggers and published in 2007, costs $9.99 for the Kindle edition and $9.41 for the actual paperback book. Again, delivered free to my house. On Beauty, a book written by Zadie Smith and published in 2006, can be had on Kindle for $12.99. The paperback delivered free to my house within 2 days? That would be $10.20. Just Kids, the Patti Smith memoir published in 2010, runs $9.99 for the Kindle e-book edition and $8.95 for the paperback. These books are not the exception to the rule -- they are the rule. I'm 27 years old. I'm not a luddite. I don't have an archaic attachment to the cumbersome, material possessions of the good ole days. I'm completely comfortable living in a sterilized digital world. What I am not at all comfortable with is paying MORE to live in a matrix than I do to live in the real world. It's absolutely ludicrous that publishers are charging more for the e-book editions of their books than the actual, physical books. If I wanted to read a book and afterwards not possess it as an object or an additional piece for my home library or to pass on to posterity or share with my friends or family I would go to the library. For free. I happen to be working internationally right now in a developing country so the argume