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Originally Posted by HarrtT
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Originally Posted by Rob Lister
No, the 99c (or whatever it is) song didn't stop piracy, but ease of piracy greatly helped set that price point.
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An interesting theory. Did car theft prompt motor manufacturers to reduce the price of cars, or to make them harder to steal? |
Perhaps it would have thus prompted them if you could freely download a perfectly drivable new car from the internet more quickly than you could buy one from a dealer. I'm old enough to remember when Japan first broke into the American auto market. Those (then) cheap foreign substitutes crashed the U.S. car market --a crash from which it never fully recovered. But I digress...
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I really don't think that prices ARE "jacked up". I don't know what eBook prices are like in the US, but in the UK they are typically significantly below paperback prices.
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"Jacked Up" is a loaded term. "What the market will bear" is a useful legitimate substitute, as in "I really don't think that prices ARE what the market will bare." For you, it bears perfectly. For me, it is much too steep...
...and I would likely buy three times the books at half the current price.
I not suggesting that either of us is typical. I'll looking for the optimum.