Thread: I wanna buy all of Steinbeck, but man the prices!
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Old 10-05-2011, 10:54 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by Daithi View Post
The publishers and Amazon are really missing the boat on the older classics.
Just to be clear, it's the publisher, not Amazon. It's agency pricing, where the publisher sets the price and Amazon is not allowed to discount it. That's how you end up with an ebook costing more than the paperback. Grapes of Wrath, for example: the ebook is $12.99, price set by the publisher. For the paperback, the price set by the publisher is $16.00 but Amazon is offering a 41% discount, so it's $9.46.

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