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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
For the same reason that I expect the paperback to cost considerably less than the audiobook: substantially lower production costs, allowing for higher volume sales at lower cost to get a broader readership to encourage future sales, and a mostly non-competing market.
Nobody thinks a paperback is a lost audiobook sale. Why think that an ebook is a lost paperback sale--rather than, like the audiobook, a case of "if it's not available in the format I want, I'll get something else instead?"
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But if EVERY ebooks of newer releases are the same price as the pbook, why would the ebook of a currently in print, older pbook be less?
Not that ebooks should be less in general. This is about the case of a book that is currently in print, in copyright, but written some time ago. Why would the ebook pricing be different than a newly released book?