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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Sorry, I didn't mean everybody... a lot of e-book retailers have ridiculously-inflated prices, and Amazon is forcing them to come down to compete. But as e-books gain in popularity, other retailers, selling e-books for $5 or less, will force general prices even lower, and Amazon will probably maintain their immediate access system as a reason to keep their prices higher.
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Within the US, other e-book retailers will only be able to sell books that inexpensively if they're not published by one of the big publishing houses.
Penguin presumably owns the rights to The Grapes of Wrath (or at least that 'edition').
It's kind of sad that they're inflating ebook prices on classics that haven't slipped into the public domain (yet). Penguin "used to" be known as the source of public domain pbooks. Most other publishers wouldn't bother with books that anyone could publish. In their own way, while still trying to make a profit, they were doing a public service -- keeping what would otherwise be neglected works circulating.