To be fair to Amazon, that $4 MMPB price is for an out of print edition some sellers are claiming as new. Simon & Schuster's cheapest pbook edition in print has a list price of $17, which Amazon is discounting to $11.56 (cheaper than what S&S is setting for the ebook). I think it's price gouging by S&S in all all formats. Unfortunately for ebook customers, there's no legitimate used market like there is for pbooks.
Oh, and another S&S price-gouge: Fahrenheit 451, $6.99 MMPB, $9.99 ebook. I guess S&S CEO Carolyn Reidy lied when she predicted the price of ebooks would gravitate to a couple dollars less than print.
Last edited by bgalbrecht; 12-01-2011 at 12:31 AM.
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