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This exact experience has happened to me.

“I remember making a comment at amazon’s discussion forums once about how ebooks used to be very cheap back over a decade ago and their original promise was that it would be cheaper due to no printing/distribution/warehousing/shipping costs etc., and people jumped on me insisting it wasn’t true, that ebooks were ‘always’ meant to supposedly be a premium convenience, etc.

Strange how easily and how profoundly most people are misled by propaganda. It constantly surprises me.

Ebooks when new (about 10 years ago) were advertised as being easier and cheaper then print books. Now, it’s the opposite and almost no one seems to remember when it was any other way, and in fact will flatly deny that it used to be different!

Back when new, ebooks were about 50% cheaper than a brand-new book. Now they are often more expensive. Makes no sense at all.

I intended to write a longer post about how susceptible people are to industrial propaganda and why (consumption becomes part of identity, so reacting negatively to industry propaganda denies one’s own identity), but I have better things to do with my life.