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Originally Posted by CCDMan
Clearly you have not been in business. There are only a few things that drive pricing:
1) Competition
2) Quality/Functionality
3) What the consumer is willing to pay
(2) is pretty much a non-issue for ebooks unless they really screw up something so that leaves (1) and (3).
Competition consists of paper books and other similar ebooks. Other similar ebooks (major publishers) mostly have a similar pricing structure. So that leaves paper books. There are back to the same 'ole dead horse of keeping/swapping/trading vs. ebook DRM and convenience. I will not argue that once again - clearly it depends on the buyer, as we see here from the differing opinions.
Then there is (3). Time will tell.
BTW, you will note the absence of "fair pricing" as a factor. There is no such thing in any business. You get what you can get, period. That's the system.
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As much as I'd like to believe otherwise, we're still too early in the development of the e-book market for consumers to drive pricing. Right now it's more of a "Hey! I've got ebook versions available. Come buy what I've produced!" stage. IOW, production-driven. Next, IIRC, comes sales-driven, where the producers - the publishers - crank out all sorts of stuff and expect their sales staff to sell, Sell, SELL! Finally, as the market matures, we'll reach marketing-driven, in which the customers' desires and tastes drive what the publishers release as ebooks.
Derek