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Originally Posted by outlander78
Lee, it is indeed an interesting marketplace. On one side, the publishers have new tools and seem to hold all the cards. On the other side, so do the customers. I think customer expectations are the wild card - online buyers are used to immediate availability and low costs - what they are not used to is seeing something they want, and waiting a year for the price to come down. I wonder if sales will fall, or if people will remember to come back in one year and re-check the price of the over-priced ebook they had a passing interest in a year ago.
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Customers have always had the power of the purse. Publishers can set the prices, but they can't make people pay. Thing is, there is a very real possibility that ebooks are going to command higher prices because folks value the convenience of ebooks more.
Lee