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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
You said ebook prices are cheaper than pbooks. I merely demonstrated that they aren't.
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Not really. You just pointed to one expensive ebook. FWIW, I've done some quick math (which may or may not be accurate; I invite correction). Average prices for Amazon's top 20 NYT Bestseller titles for the week of Aug. 1 in each of the following categories:
Hardcover Fiction:
$14.91.
Hardcover Nonfiction:
$14.96.
Trade PB Fiction:
$9.14.
Massmarket PB Fiction:
$8.60.
Massmarket PB Nonfiction:
$9.59.
Amazon's top 100 ebook bestsellers (minus the two newspaper subscriptions), average price:
$8.75.
Smashword's top 100 titles, average price:
$0.71.
I'm not seeing where ebooks are more expensive than pbooks, even at Amazon.
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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
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.
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"Those" books being Bix Six titles, presumably. Strikes me as a bit like complaining that the only place you can buy Sears tires is at Sears. If you don't like that Sears has a monopoly on Sears tires, then go buy Goodyear instead.
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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
Not paying the cartel fixed prices means not buying that book.
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Bingo! I guarantee you'll be much happier.
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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
price-fixing is hurting the ebook market
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What price fixing, and how (be specific) is it hurting the ebook market?
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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
as a reader I want to see a thriving market of affordable ebooks
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Define "affordable". The same folk who think nothing about plopping down $20 for a hardcover suddenly think $9 for an ebook is price gouging. How's that work?
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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
cartels ... are also bad things.
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Then get over your addiction to cartel books. Don't buy 'em. There's plenty of other stuff out there as good as or better. And most of that is free.