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Books prices are controlled by release schedule as well as the cost of materials. That's why you have to wait around a couple of months to pay less for paperback. Most of us here probably feel that eBooks should be priced below paperbacks since there are no productions costs, but that's not the way the publisher looks at it. If you can get the eBook at the same time the hardback, the publisher probably feels that you should be paying almost as much as for the physical product. It's similar to the way that movie studios give an initial rate to primary theatres and a lower one in a few months to secondaries like Rialto's.
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