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Originally Posted by ATimson
If vendors could discount ebooks still, you'd have a point. But now publishers are pocketing $3-10 per book that vendors were giving us as discounts, and have yet to explain why we aren't seeing any of that taken off the list price.
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In fairness, I buy a lot of eBooks at Amazon UK, and they are virtually ALL discounted. Sometimes by the publisher, sometimes by Amazon. They're generally priced slightly below the paperback price.
Eg, the most recent books I've bought are the five books of David Eddings "Belgariad" series. This is what Amazon has to say about the first book in the series:
Digital List Price: £7.99
Print List Price: £6.99
Kindle Price: £4.34 includes VAT & free wireless delivery via Amazon Whispernet
You Save: £2.65 (38%)
Amazon's paperback price for this book is £4.57.
And that's typical - the download price is slightly below the PB price, which actually means that it's 20% cheaper, since the eBook has VAT and the PB doesn't. I don't consider this to be at all unreasonable.