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Originally Posted by HarryT
But the same is true with pbooks - why should eBooks be any different.
It's a free market - a seller is free to charge whatever they wish for a book.
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Completely agreed here. However for p-books there are some standard "cover" prices (hc usually 25-28$, tp 15$, mmpb 7-8$), and then each bookstore chooses if and how to discount it, and I guess that's the core of the issue, where to "cover" price e-books. At hc levels, at tp levels, at mmpb levels, based on how the p-book is released with possible some discount (30% of hc...)??
Baen has a uniform policy, e-books of current print books are by and large 6$ with some 4$ or 5$, e-arcs of books to be released in several months hence 15$ and the serialized Webscriptions 15$ too, with "specials" bundles priced accordingly, and I find it quite fair, so I do not mind paying 15$ once in a while for an e-arc that I really want for the privilege of reading the book in advance.