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Originally Posted by pwalker8
They are still trying to find the natural price points of ebooks. While it is true that ebooks are infinitely reproducible at trivial cost, the initial product, the book itself, is basically a one of a kind creation. Most people don't buy generic ebooks, they buy a specific book. So the question becomes what is the public willing to pay for that specific book? If you set it too high, then people decide it's not worth it and buy other ebooks by other authors/publishers. If you set it too low, then you don't make money and that publisher/author doesn't produce anymore books.
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It's not difficult to set a price. During initial hardback only release, charge the same price minus the physical costs associated with printing, warehousing, transportation, etc. Then when the various paperbacks are released, do the same thing there.