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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
If it is true that you get the HP books free when they are released, I might pick up a Sony since it will probably cost as much as buying the books. I can see JKR charging $20 a pop for the e-books. Then I would have a back up e-reader to my Kindles.
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I can't. $20 a pop would be pure greed. If it's really true that she more-or-less has control over what happens with the digital distribution of the Potter books I can't see them being over $10. JKR doesn't strike me as a greedy person. A lot of the money generated from these digital sales won't go to her anyway - it'll be going to various charities. Smaller price point = more sales, surely? After the initial cost of readying the books for the plethora of formats early indications suggest they'll be available in, distribution costs I'd assume are very low.
I'm not a US citizen, so I don't know how much the hardback and paperback copies of the series fetch, but I can say that you can pick up any title in the set for less than £5 on Amazon in the UK, and the publisher Bloomsbury AFAIK doesn't charge much more to order from them direct. The RRP is a little higher, but you'll only pay that in dedicated bookstores (where they are usually found on 3 for 2 anyway).