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Originally Posted by Pinecone
Why would anyone expect the ebooks to be substantially less than a currently in print, latest printing pbook?
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I expect an ebook to cost a little less than the lowest price the publisher and/or a national brand-name retailer is offering the book at in any format. So if the publisher is offering the book for $7.99 in a paperback version, I expect the ebook to cost no more than $6.99.
Why? Not because of the so-called production and distribution savings, but because of the DRM-imposed limitations, which subtract greatly from the ebook's marketplace value, at least in my view.
If the ebook's quality is less than the paperback's quality, which is often the case, an additional reduction in price should occur to reflect not only the imposition of DRM but the lesser quality as compared to the lowest price version available to the public from the publisher and/or a national brand-name retailer.
Right now, especially with agency pricing, there is no correlation between the asked for price and the marketplace determined price of an ebook. I think there should be.