Thread: Apple + Agency Pubs Colluded on Price?
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Old 08-13-2011, 01:12 PM   #55
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Originally Posted by DJHARKAVY View Post
I can get a hardcover (although I won't these days) for about half the cover price with discounts in various places.
I can get most hardcovers for $.01+shipping, a few months after release. Publishers who want to protect their profits should be taking a hard look at the secondary markets, not ebooks, as competition.

Ebooks *could* be their ticket to competing with that market--$4 for the hardcover, delivered in 3-5 days, vs. $4 for the ebook, delivered now. Instead, they're trying to believe that the customers are choosing between ebook for $14 and new hardcover for $20, or ebook for $8 delivered now or paperback for $8+shipping, delivered in 3-5 days.
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