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Old 10-07-2011, 09:41 PM   #18
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Publishers are evil!
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Originally Posted by elemenoP View Post
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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In regards to Amazon, I was referring to them not putting some kind of mechanism in place that would allow publishers to bundle several ebooks together as one package. This is something Amazon does have control over.

In the book I just bought, it was an omnibus type book, and not a bundle of books.
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