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Originally Posted by HarryT
I entirely agree. Eg, about a year ago I bought a DVD box set for £34.99 from Amazon. I notice today that same box set costs £14.99. Was I "ripped off"? No, of course not; I made the personal choice to pay the premium price when it was newly released. I knew full well that I could wait a year and then buy it more cheaply.
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But you knew the price would drop and chose to buy it at the higher price to get it when it was first released. When a high price eBook is released to go along with the hardcover, we have no guarantee that it will drop in price when the paperback is released. So we could be stuck with a hardcover priced eBook when there is a paperback version out there for a lot less.
Mind you however, some paperbacks are expensive as the publishers have switched to another scam on the public. Those nice larger sized paperbacks. The ones that are larger just so they can charge more. No wonder reading is down and sales are down. You want people to buy your product, you do not raise the price when the price they were paying is a price they were willing to pay. Not now with tough times.