Thread: Publishers still missing the point on e-book prices
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Old 12-20-2011, 07:46 AM   #151
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Originally Posted by leebase View Post
Someone asked "why are we comparing prices to hard backs as I always bought paper backs anyway". Well, because paper backs have always been released a year or so after the hard back. The $9.99 or less paperback wasn't available for sale when the $30 hard back was released. But AMAZON was pricing brand new release ebooks at paper back prices during the high profitability window of the hard back book. It's no wonder the publishers weren't going to put up with this.

This is no different than movies. First movies come to the theater...the expensive theater. They are not offered anywhere else. You want to see Avatar when everyone else is seeing and talking about it....you have to see it at the theater.

If you wait long enough...you can pay $1 to rent Avatar at your local Redbox or see it for free on Tv.
Yet the eBook of an Agatha Christie novel written 70-80 years ago still costs $7.
So not really like movies.
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