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Originally Posted by anamardoll
I won't flame you, honest. 
I can agree that publishing the back list to compete with used prices would be, well, tricky. (I don't think its "commercial suicide", but let's agree to disagree on that for a moment.) But in the Faulkner example I keep banging on about, the ebook version is priced $2 more than the NEW paperback.
This is particularly amusing on the B&N site because they now show all versions and prices, with the cheap paperback version on top.
The ebook -- correct my math if I'm wrong -- costs 25% more than the paperback that is going to eventually get shipped to Half Price and the like at a discounted rate because -- let's face it -- Faulkner isn't exactly flying off the shelves at the "new paperback" prices. |
And that is an argument for the price. The market for most backlist books are not so big so then it is rational with a higher price since the people that are going to buy the book most probably are not price sensitive.
If ebooks was sold without DRM I would have no problem buying them for slightly higher price than the corresponding paper version since in ebooks I get dictionary lookup and search. Now I do not buy any ebooks at all since I do not buy books with DRM.