Amazon eBook/Paperback Pricing Nonsense

Amazon prices don't make any sense when it comes to pricing an ebook and a paperback at the same price. Why should I pay $7.99 USD for a single ebook when I get four paperbacks for the price of three?

I can understand why traditional publishers want to protect paperback sales when releasing the ebook version at the same time. The ebook price needs to drop after the paperback has been out for a while. Otherwise, I'm going to keep reading the dead tree editions for fiction as long as Amazon offers me an economic incentive.

This pricing nonsense also extends to non-fiction books, where the hardback and paperback editions are sometimes cheaper than the ebook edition. The ebook prices need to be much lower.

Although I would love to convert future reading to ebook format to save physical living space, I can't do that when the dead tree edition has better pricing over the ebook edition.

Next week I'll being adding four dead trees to my fiction reading list.