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Originally Posted by Barty
The thing with ebooks is there are really no MPB, remainder, or bargain bin equivalent.
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This will be a problem down the road. What happens in ten or twenty years, when paper books are a high-priced niche item, like 33 RPM records today? There will be so few paper books going into the used marketplace that the price of used books -- now often little more than the cost of postage -- will skyrocket. Without competition from used books and the bargain bin, publishers will be able to raise prices.
If I'm right, the days of the $14.99 major publisher eBook could indeed by numbered at, oh, say, 5,000. After that, you won't find 'em that cheap.
Or it could go the other way, with publishers forced to lower prices due to competition from self-published and/or pirated books. Nobody knows.