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Originally Posted by leebase
You make it sound like the "Agency 6" make all the books, or that all the books made are ebooks. If an ebooks doesn't drop in price, buy the used paper back...coming soon to a garage sale near you for a nickel.
eBooks are not going to be "the place to be" for those who's preferred book price is the used book. So just continue buying the used book. Or ready any of the hundreds of thousands of free out of copyright books or any of the millions of cheap indie books.
Lee
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I agree, and do buy Paper second hand or on sale when the E is too overpriced for my tastes.
However for the Publisher its going to be a lost sale if I buy second Hand, and keeping the Price low enough, especially for older Midlist and Backlist will convince a lot of people like me that paying the Used or slight over that price is worth the convenience, despite the restriction on resale (I used to recover 40%-80% of price of the books I'd read but not liked enough to keep).
It also get people into the habit of buying the E Version, and as such at times even when the price is not the best, Its just more convenient to just buy the E rather then bother with even looking for the cheaper option.
Despite my limits, I actually did that last week, Spending about £50 on think it was 8 books, as while a couple were a little expensive, I just want to read them at that time and is was more convenient to have them all in E. Having said that if the books had been a little more expensive I'd probably not bought any of them or looked for them Used.