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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
I'm not into 'chick-lit', but being possessed by the spirit of Schubert sounds interesting, so I just tried to follow the link, and the Sony Store is down while "undergoing maintenance." From my previous experience with the Sony store, I hope they mean "renovations". Sony makes fine readers, but their store sucks.
So I looked at the Amazon site, and discovered these prices:
* Kindle Edition -- $9.99
* Hardcover -- New from $0.57
* Paperback -- New from $7.64
As it is the publishers, and not Amazon, who set the prices; I begin to suspect that some publishers are trying behind the scenes to kill ebooks.
So how did you like the book? (Notice I didn't ask, "So how did you like [INSERT BOOK TITLE HERE]?"  ) |
The prices you quote are not necessarily set by the publishers, the $0.57 hardcover described as new is NOT an Amazon sale, it's a third party seller and is most likely a remainder which would have been bought in for almost nothing and similarly the $7.64 paperback is from a third party seller... Amazon don't list the hardcover and are asking $11.64 for the paperback.
The only prices set (fixed pricing) are those on the ebooks (especially agency pricing as they licence rather than sell) but as far as pbooks are concerned, the retailers buy (not licence) their stock at a discount from the recommended retail price and then decide what price they want to sell for, ranging from "loss leader" (sell for less than price bought in) to maximum profit (cover price). Your example simply shows a publisher (agency) price and a range of pbook prices set by the sellers rather than a great conspiracy...
