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Originally Posted by Onemack
Why should they justify their pricing? They are in the market place and they will have to react according to their sales figures. Dont forget no profit = no Penguin book company. Personally I don't buy ebooks based on their low price but on their ease of purchase, the currently low prices are a bonus, as is the fact that some titles are impossible to readily find in bookshops without spending a great deal of time and effort.
John
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Where I live, any ebook that I have been interested in has been easily available as a pbook but not the other way around and my comments are based on that.
If an ebook costs the same as a pbook I will buy the pbook and then sell it after I have read it. That is not good for the publisher who may possibly have lost an additional sale.
If the ebook is cheaper then after I have read the ebook I keep it (with DRM I don't legally have any choice). This way the publisher benefits. I would suggest that the difference in price should be at least equal to the second-hand value of the pbook. For many pbooks that may only be £1 but that would be enough for me to buy the ebook over the pbook and I'm sure the publisher would still be making more profit and would be keeping second-hand books off the market.