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Originally Posted by wallcraft
Frank Herbert's Dune Messiah is finally available as an e-book, but at a crazy price. It lists for $24.95 but is typically being sold for about $20. This is for a book first published in 1975. It is only $7.99 for the Kindle, which is the same price as the paperback... Amazon is again leading the way to rational e-book prices.
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Leading the way? Maybe. They're certainly not there yet, though. An ebook should never cost the same as a pbook version. If a publisher can sell the pbook for $7.99 and make enough profit, then profit can be made with an ebook at a cheaper price. If I ever have to choose between buying an ebook or a pbook with the same pricetag, I'm going with the pbook because I can make my own ebook out of that in addition to having a new book for my library.
