When will these companies realize that an electronic version of *ANYTHING* is not worth as much as a physical copy and cannot be charged the same for?

On top of that, the options aren’t really compatible anyway.
I mean, come on “I’d pay the same as a full book!” “Screw you, I download illegally” and “I’ll pay a stupidly high price to ‘rent’ a chapter” ? … no thank you.
Where’s the potential release structure of chapters vs volumes?
The option for renting a full book (rather than chapters) at a discount against the full price a la digital manga?
The possibility of prices that aren’t just plain horrible?
The possibility of a ‘Nothing, because I prefer print books and would rather wait” or a “No, those prices are too high” option.
Or basically any “No” option without the implication that the only reason a person would want to say no to their proposal is because they’re a filthy pirate?
(I mean… I admit, I am a scanlation reader, but that isn’t why I wouldn’t want to pay their proposed prices).

It also seems a poor point in time for them to start a “What would you pay to read online before its printed?” sort of query when Viz are doing that for the rather hard to beat online price of free.

Even getting off the ‘free’ priceline, Netcomics have pretty good online pricing and release print books afterwards and their prices are pretty far from tokyopop’s proposals there
(still waiting on a few of those print volumes, mind you )