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Originally Posted by avantman42
If that's true, then why didn't that happen with paper books? Why didn't everyone wait for the mass market paper back? I don't think I've ever bought a new hardback (I do have some that I bought second hand), but I have bought trade paper backs when I wanted the book badly enough that I didn't want to wait for the mass market paper back.
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A lot of people who buy hardbacks buy them because hardbacks look good on the book shelves. And some buy them to get the absolute first shot at reading a popular new book. There is a clear degradation in quality from hardback to paperback to mass market paperback. And mass market paperbacks don't appear until a year or so after the hardback. An ebook always stays the same.
Maybe I didn't make myself quite clear, a lot of people say that ebooks should be below 5 USD, for a bestseller that doesn't make sense (it might well after 2-3 years). A price at paperback levels does.