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Originally Posted by HarryT
Is that really true in the US? In the UK, eBooks are normally significantly cheaper than their paper equivalents, normally about two thirds the price.
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Arrows of the Queen - Mercedes Lackey:
$7.99 ebook, $7.99 mmpb
DAW (Penguin imprint)
Old Man's War - John Scalzi:
$6.99 ebook, $6.99 mmpb
Tor (Macmillan imprint)
Starship Troopers - Robert A Heinlein:
$9.99 ebook, $9.99 tpb (no mass-market edition currently in print) for a 50-year-old book available for a dollar at many used bookstores & thrift shops.
Ace (Penguin imprint)
Bunnicula - Deborah Howe:
$5.99 ebook, $5.99 paperback (odd size; children's book)
Atheneum (Simon & Schuster imprint)
The Scent of Shadows, Zodiac book 1 - Vicki Petterson:
$.99 ebook, $6.99 mmpb
Harper Voyager (Harper Collins imprint) Loss leader, because...
Book 2: $7.99 ebook, $7.99 mmpb;
Book 3: $6.99 ebook, $6.99 mmpb
In the US store, most of the Agency 6 set Kindle books to the same price as the MMPB's except when they're obviously doing a promotional sale. When the only pbook is trade for $15-20, they set the ebook price around $12--even when the tpb is a manyth-edition reprint. (Spiral Dance is $17 in trade, for the 20th anniversary edition, and $12 for the ebook. Amazon discounts the paper to $11.56.)