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Originally Posted by HarryT
Those appear to be primarily newly-published books, which are only out in hardback. Prices will generally fall drastically when the paperback is released. I never buy hardback-only eBooks; my reading list is so long that waiting a year and then buying it at half the price is a much more cost-effective action.
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Perhaps they fall - I just grabbed a few examples. How about
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Stephen King - It - $14.27
Stephen King - The Shinging - $13.17
Stephen King - Full Dark, No Stars - $14.27
Stpehen King - all of the Dark Tower series - $14+ for each volume
Stephen King - Salem's Lot - $18.67
Dan Simmons - Hyperion - $14.27
Dan Simmons - Fall of Hyperion - $14.27
Dan Simmons - Rise of Endymion - $18.67
Peter Straub - Koko - $12.08
Peter Straub - A Dark Matter - $14.27
Guy Gavriel Kay - Tigana - $12.08
Most of his seem to be at that price point where they're available
Joe Abercrombie - The Heroes - $21.96
The rest seem to be at about $14.27
I haven't been looking at whether these prices were supposed discounts - but it's possible.
Here's a Hachette bargain:
Patrick Rothfuss - The Wise Man's Fear and The Name of the Wind - $13 each at a saving of over 50% from the listed price.
Some of these books are newish - some of them are really quite old, but all of them are well and truly past the paperback stage.
The thing is - some of these I had purchased previously when they were $9.99. With age the prices went up rather than down.
Of course, you could probably not ordinarily buy even these books in paperback in a book store for this little in Australia. It's about the same or even a little bit cheaper than books sold in departments stores (KMart, Target, BigW). But my point was that it's really not hard to find ebooks priced up to $15 at Amazon for an Australian. I really wasn't looking very hard at all for the list above.