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Originally Posted by Nathanael
Oh, uh, wow. Kinda makes me feel sorry for anyone stuck buying from Amazon.
Hey -- now there's a wild, off-the-wall thought. Ya don't like Amazon's prices, ya don't shop at Amazon. Radical idea, I know. Forget I mentioned it.
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You said ebook prices are cheaper than pbooks. I merely demonstrated that they aren't.
And in fact I don't shop at Amazon, at least not for ebooks.
However, due to the publishers' cartel and the price fixing, it doesn't matter; there is no competition, and nowhere I can buy those books cheaper. Not paying the cartel fixed prices means not buying that book.
To some extent the prices the cartel charged are irrelevant to me, because I don't buy DRM-restricted ebooks anyway. But the price-fixing is hurting the ebook market, and since as a reader I want to see a thriving market of affordable ebooks, that's a bad thing. Not to mention I'm rather fond of free markets and all; cartels, trusts, monopolies, and other structures that hinder the freedom of the market are also bad things.