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Originally Posted by bookwormfjl
The same thing goes for Dune Messiah -- $24.95! When I can get the paperback for $8! At least Fictionwise is offering a 100% Micropay rebate.
What do you guys think? Are the prices getting out of hand for ebooks?
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Natural Ordermage is a Tor book. With what they've done ebook wise so far it's surprising it's available as an ebook at all. Thankfully it appears that Tor is getting ready to be more serious about ebooks.
In the case of Dune Messiah the ebook was just released at the same time as a new hardcover release. Penguin is therefore basing the list price on the price of said hardcover. It sucks, but they've done the same with other books. Penguin (Ace, Berkley, DAW, etc.) are the worst for pricing problems & also for inconsistency in what they even release (& in what formats). MacMillan/Holtzbrinck (Tor, St. Martins) are the only publisher I can think of that is worse on ebooks than Penguin. For some of them I'm not sure if they aren't aware or if they simply don't care.
For all the poorly priced stuff put out there is also a lot that's put out at more reasonable prices thankfully.
It would be nice if there was an easy avenue of contact to query the ebook departments of the publishers, but unfortunately most publishers are hard to contact (at least hard to contact the right person).
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Originally Posted by HarryT
The eBook price generally falls when the book is released as a pback, but sometimes the publisher forgets to do it. If you contact the store and point out the discrepency, they're generally very good about putting it right.
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Lately I either get told that the publisher sets the price & they can do nothing about it or they simply ignore the emails all together.