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Originally Posted by JSWolf
This illustrates one of the major issues we face today with ebooks. There is no such thing as a standard price. And to find the best price, you have to go looking on a number of different sites and possibly be willing to do some DRM removal and format conversion to get the best price. Can something be done to bring the prices more in line with what we expect of them?
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But the same is true with pbooks - why should eBooks be any different.
In the UK at least, book stores charge the "cover price" for the majority of books. Sometimes they have "special offers" such as "three for the price of two". Go online and you'll often find that Blackwells (a large UK online book store) charge a completely different price to Amazon for the same book.
It's a free market - a seller is free to charge whatever they wish for a book.
In the UK at least, price fixing is illegal. I guess from what you're saying, this isn't the case in the US?