Thread: Publishers still missing the point on e-book prices
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Old 12-29-2011, 01:53 PM   #415
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Let me ask those people who think that eBooks are too expensive a question:

The standard price for a paperback book in the UK is £7.99 (about $12.30); that's what you'll pay in any physical bookshop.

What would you consider to be a reasonable price for the corresponding eBook, assuming it to be nicely formatted, error-free, etc?
The thing is, with a pBook, I can get discounts and sales. I cannot with agency eBooks. So if the eBook and pBook are priced similar enough, I can get the pBook for less.

I know the agency publishers did this so Amazon could not discount any of their eBooks. But that does make it unfair for the eBook buyer.
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