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Originally Posted by rhadin
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.
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Actually, I suspect that the publishers are playing around with the pricing to see how it affects e-book sales (or not).
I normally place "interesting" books on my wishlists at the various e-book stores I frequent and then just check back from time to time. The price movement is completely random (as far as I can tell) with some popular titles staying high for quite some time, and then suddenly dropping to $9.99 or even less - and sometimes even dropping lower for the European market (i.e. Kobo's euro price converted to US$) while the price for the same book is considerably higher at the Sony Store in the US. Other times, the reverse is true - the Sony Store price drops while the euro price stays outrageously high.
We're probably just part of a huge marketing experiment...