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Originally Posted by stonetools
I will say that there seems to be a LOT more vocalizing about ebook prices than, say, the price of Starbucks coffee. Indeed, a lot of folks who seem OK with paying $4.99 for a cup of coffee bitch about $9.99 for the price of an ebook! Comes down to priorities, I guess.
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One big difference: you talk about books and you talk over coffee. What I mean is that you can swap a Starbucks for a Timmies and noone is going to care. If you swap an expensive new release from a popular author with a $1 indie title, noone is going to have a clue what you're talking about.
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You can't compare ebooks to songs. THe proper comparision to an ebook is the album, which costs, guess what,$9.99 -19.99.
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Different media means that direct comparisons are not going to work very well.
Songs on many albums stand alone fairly well, so an album is more of an anthology. This means that buying a single track is a valid option. You can't say that for chapters in ebooks.
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So far as I can tell, Amazon's ebook sales are great, and are rising in tandem to their sales of ereaders, which are also great, according to Amazon.
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Is that going to continue when the novelty dies off?