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Originally Posted by xg4bx
the thing is though, most of these high prices aren't even charged by the publisher. the books are out of print and they're secondary market prices. so who am i really "stealing" from, some greedy speculator?
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Most of the highly sought after ones go straight to the speculators on preorder, and they have them on sale more or less on publication day at twice the price. One I was interested in a few months ago was $75 for the hardback and $5 for the ebook, both straight from the publisher (in America, so the hardback would have cost at least $100 to have it posted over).
I decided to go for the ebook, but left it until I had a reading slot for it. But when I went to buy it, it wasn't there anymore. I emailed the writer and it turned out the ebook was "limited" too, and it was withdrawn from sale as soon as the hardback sold out. He said the only option now was to get the hardback on Ebay. So I bought something else instead.
This sort of thing makes no sense to me at all, unless the writers in question are the ones selling them on Ebay?