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Originally Posted by witchkitten
Well this sucks. I wish the publishers would lower their prices. Although they would make less money per book, they would sell more books, and I bet they would make more money overall. I bought more books at 50% off than I did in all of 2012 and most of those were from the big six (now five with the Penguin/Random House merger). It's so easy for me to justify spending $5.00 or less on a book. At $10 or more I'd rather wait for the title to become available at the library, even if it means checking out a physical copy or waiting in an extremely long queue for the digital format when available. Very few books are worth $10 to own, but many are worth $5.00 or less.
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Exactly. I bought the four books in the first Hawkmoon series by Michael Moorcock. They are back catalog titles from Tor (written in the late 60's). I have paperback copies of them, but I'm not going to pay $10 each to replace my paperbacks. Google Play has them for $8.89, but I think I've seen them for $7.99 somewhere, but that's still a bit pricey just to replace paperbacks... At $5 each, though, I bought them all and would have bought the second trilogy if it had been available.