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Originally Posted by HarryT
Hmmm. If you buy a book for $12, and sell it at a 75% depreciation, you've sold it for $3, therefore your total outlay is $9. That's still more expensive than the $8 eBook, is it not?
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Don't confuse him with math, Harry. That's unfair.
All those who are certain that ebooks are "overpriced" should ask themselves why the general public keeps buying more and more of those"overpriced" ebooks. Econ 101 tells us that if a product is overpriced, sales of that product should fall, or at least not keep doubling every year.
Its time to call most of this talk about overpriced ebooks what it really is-whingeing of the worst order. There are plenty of ebooks available at low prices-or even for free. You could assemble a library of hundreds of interesting, well formatted ebooks for free,without even leaving this website. If you want to buy a few ebooks at full price, hey, you are still well ahead of the game.
This month alone, I have :
1. Purchased one "agency" book for 2.99- down from 9.99
2. Purchased another book for 0.99, down from 7.99
3. Purchased two shorter works for 0.99 each, down from 1.99 and 2.99.
4.Downloaded 7 books for free aspart of a promotion
That's 12 titles for $6- and that's not even my best month. Over the past year, I've downloaded over 150 ebooks. Even counting just the ones I've bought, I'm doing less than $2.00 per book-and that includes a few full price purchases.
Anyone who is complaining aboutthe high price of ebooks just ain't doing it right.