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Originally Posted by Piper_
Plus, sales should be increasing dramatically, to stay in proportion to sales of devices, which are selling like hotcakes, and the reports I've seen show that the #1 reason or one of the top 3 reasons people gave for buying an ereader was the cheaper cost of ebooks vs paper.
Personally, I'll gladly pay the premium for new releases, but I don't see how publishers can expect people not to complain when there are so many situations like this:
George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 4-Book Boxed Set:
Kindle Edition $35.99
Paperback $19.77 |
You can thank the agency price-fixing agreement...err...model...for that.
Paperbacks are still a relatively free market - the standard product producer / seller & price competition between sellers model.
Ebooks are on the agencies-agree-to-the-same-pricing-scheme plan.
The result is the price you see above.