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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Of course, for a while, everyone discounting the hard back price of major best sellers, _did_ devalue the hard back books, which may be part of why big book stores had trouble staying in business. They needed high margin sells to cover their overhead.
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It's still going on. If publishers fear book devaluation for ebooks then why don't they fear it for hardcovers? Why do they continue to allow bookstores to sharply discount hardcovers? It's time they institute Agency for this format. Otherwise, they're nothing but a bunch of hypocrites.