Thread: It's IMPOSSIBLE to price ebooks too high
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Old 01-20-2011, 05:55 PM   #43
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Originally Posted by leebase View Post
Because you can replace "ebook" for "hard back" and EVERYTHING will still be true.
Except that you can't buy a used ebook.

And you can't buy a remaindered ebook.

And you can't borrow an ebook from your friend.

And you can't wait for an ebook to come out in "paperback".

And you can't use a discount coupon on an ebook.

And you can't buy an ebook on sale.

And there's no cost to a publisher for keeping an ebook around at any given price forever, unlike hardbacks, which eat. (or at least cost taxes, warehouse space, etc., which works out to the same thing)

But other than, y'know, being subjected to any of the same pressures that affect hardcover books, I guess "everything" is still true, for values of "everything" approaching zero.
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