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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I concur. But it's precisely that "high price when the book is new" that has caused a lot of adverse comment when it's applied to ebooks.
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Well I think hardback prices are unreasonable, so I don't buy them, to me a book is released when it is available in paperback, so it doesn't exercise me personally.
Plus each publisher has a monopoly on their authors' works, the fact that something is a sensible business practice for a monopoly doesn't make it particularly palatable to customers. Of course that only really hold true of the major name authors, in genre fiction books might be considered more interchangeable.
I do think they are going to struggle to maintain eBook prices at the same level as pBook prices, I simply don't think most people will think that is reasonable.