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Originally Posted by hal2814
That's the point you're making now, but it's not the point you make in your post's title: "It's IMPOSSIBLE to price ebooks too high" There's nothing impossible about pricing too high. It's merely unreasonable. But I guess it's easy to keep arguing when you continually change your stance.
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Headlines grab attention - the content makes the point. My stance hasn't changed one iota.
There is an incorrect but intractable meme on this forum that the agency model allows publishers to price gouge since it eliminates price shopping for a particular ebook. eBooks, under agency pricing, have their prices set by the publisher and are the same in all the book stores.
However, there is VAST competition that folks aren't considering that keep a lid on what publishers can charge - and thus it really is impossible for the price to be set "too high" -- higher than the market will bear. The vast competition even includes the very book in paper form, not to mention the vast universe of free or low cost books (ebooks or paper), and every other form of entertainment.
Lee