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Old 09-05-2011, 12:58 AM   #36
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
But price-fixing doesn't necessarily imply unfair pricing. I buy a lot of eBooks - probably an average of over 10 a month, and generally pay £4-£5 at Amazon. Those are almost all agency publishers, but if the printed book has a list price of £7.99 (pretty much the standard UK paperback price these days) I'm happy to pay £4-5 for the eBook.
Unfortunately, if the book is a mass-market paperback, the agency 6 usually price the ebook at parity with the list cost of the MMPB, so it works out to be more than the discounted MMPB I can get at my local bookseller.

I have so many books in my TBR pile (physically and metaphorically) that I refuse to pay the new book premium for ebooks. I can and do wait, but apparently the majority of ebook buyers don't.
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