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Originally Posted by *reg*
I'm quite new to this whole e-reader/e-book thing. Anyway was just browsing some websites and looking at possible purchases, and along the way I quite often noticed that sometimes the e-books would be a couple of dollars more than the paperback version.
How the jeepers does that work? There is no printing, paper, transport and so on involved with an e-book, so how can it be more expensive.
Can someone please explain what I am missing? 
As a result I didn't purchase the e-book or the paperback version. |
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Yes. The major publishers have what's called an "agency agreement" with the bookstores, which means that the stores are acting as their agents, rather than as independent retailers. That means that the publishers dictate the prices.
What you will generally find is that, as time passes, the price of a particular book will fall. "Back catalog" books will normally be a lot cheaper than new releases.
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Hah! You guys don't know how lucky you are. In France, the selling price of paper books is fixed by the editor, by law. The price is printed on the cover, and it never goes down. However, after the first edition (priced between 12 and 20 euros usually), if the book is successful enough there will be a cheap paperback edition at 6-7 euros. But this paperback is not published by the same company, and so far the e-books we have available in France are published by the original publisher, at the original price. I have seen a few books that are several years old, sold in electronic version at almost
3 times the price of the paperback!
