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Originally Posted by anamardoll
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.
If the ebook were priced the same as the paperback book, I'd see it as one book, two formats, one price for the classic. As it is, I'm right chuffed.  |
I'd agree with you on this one, I think that in some cases the publishers don't seem to get the difference between list price and selling price (they have knocked 25% off the list price for the ebook) - even more complicated here in the UK as eBooks have 20% VAT as well.
So, as long as they are setting the eBook price and the bookseller is setting the pBook price, these are always going to happen.
Of course you can always find exceptions either way.
Jim Butcher as an example (first agency author I could think of from the top of my head)
Latest books availble only in hardback
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ghos...her/1030442261
Hardback 46% off $15.02, eBook $14.99
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/side...=jim%2bbutcher
Hardback 39% off $15.82, eBook $12.99
first in series as paperback
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/stor...=jim%2bbutcher
Paperback $9.99, eBook $9.99
Although, strangely, the collection of the first 6 eBooks books costs slightly more than getting them seperately.
Rather than specific examples does anyone have a bot that can compare eBook to pBook prices for, say, the top 1000 sellers on B&N so we can see if the eBooks are generally cheaper or more expensive that pBooks?
I agree that the price should be less than the lowest new pBook, but then you have the problem of loss leaders etc.
Anyway, my point was that they should not price at used paperback prices ($1.99 for the book you listed).