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Originally Posted by anamardoll
It hasn't been in mine.
"Rapture Ready" from Scribner is $17.50 Hardcover, $11.39 Paperback, and $16.99 and standing at eBook form. (Used for $2, $3, or $4 depending on the edition.)
$17.50 for a hardcover sort of makes sense because as people have said before, you were paying for the immediacy. Not bringing the eBook down to match the paperback is, in my opinion, unacceptable.
Maybe the bestsellers are coming down on eBook prices, but the backlist and the lesser known books are most definitely sitting pretty at hardcover prices in many a case.
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Individual anecdotes aren't data. I take it for granted that you can find quite a few examples of publishers overpricing ebooks-and examples of publishers UNDERPRICING ebooks (yes, Virginia, such a thing is possible ).
In general, Harry T. is right-ebook prices decline in time to the price of an MMPB.
The problem is that most folks here think that ebook prices should START about the price of an MMPB and decline rapidly from there. That's probably an unsustainable business model, and the people who advocate that have yet to show that it's a sustainable model- other than assumptions about what it should cost to produce an ebook.