Thread: Pricing the way it shouldn't be.
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Old 12-13-2010, 11:00 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by murraypaul View Post
A more egregious example is the pricing of Agatha Christie eBooks. The Moving Finger was first published 68 years ago. It has, by any conceivable measure, covered its costs.
That's nice, but prices aren't indexed to costs. They're based on demand and other factors.


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It, along with a bunch of other Christie works, are a fixed $6.99. You could pick it up for a buck or two at any secondhand bookstore.
Used is not a valid price comparison.

Not that price comparisons ought to matter, really. The better question is whether the price matches what customers are willing to pay. If they are, then the price is justified. If they aren't, the publisher will feel market pressures to reduce the price.
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