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Originally Posted by charleski
This is why Apple, with their $5,000 computers, and Louis Vuitton, with their $1000 handbags, are so unpopular...
You seem determined to view expensive goods as a personal insult.
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No, I don't take it as a personal insult. You can never make everyone happy with pricing but you have to do market research to set the price that will keep that majority of your customers happy. Apple does that very well.
I don't think the fact that 20,000 people bought the ebook meant that it was priced appropriately. I believe that if you surveyed the people that bought the book over 20% would say they thought it was overpriced.
I've observed a lot of anger about ebook pricing and it's not just in this forum. I've attributed the anger to people being insulted by the pricing in that there is no rational to it and they feel price gouged.
I think it's reasonable to expect an ebook to be a couple bucks cheaper then the least expensive paper version and that's all I've seen Amazon trying to do. The publishers have failed to demonstrate any desire to do this. This is more apparent if you look at the pricing of ebooks that have been released for over a year and compare the price to the paperback price.