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Originally Posted by Purple Lady
It seems like it's too late for that to me. Who knows how long they would continue to sell ebooks. I wouldn't want to take a chance they would shut down and leave me without my books if they decided it wasn't working out. I always download my purchases and disinfect anyway so that wouldn't affect me directly anyway. I also don't know if they would sell at a good price either.
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There's also the whole aspect of having to have accounts at so many sites to buy all the books you want. I'd pass, that's too big a pain.
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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
They could all get together and create a Big 5 Bookstore with set prices 
Then they would halt all wholesale sales and force all consumers to buy only from the B5B  |
They probably can't do that, it would almost certainly raise anti-trust issues and get them sued by the Justice Department (again). Even more so if they did it and killed off every competing store like you suggest.
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Originally Posted by jgaiser
They most certainly could, and that's just one of the things that I don't understand about the Big 5. They should be falling all over ebooks. No used books sales. No sharing of books with your best friend. Every copy that is read *should* be paid for. If they'd just get behind ebooks, they could be rolling in profit. But no. We'll just cling to our old way of doing business, piss off readers and authors and finally die a slow lingering death.
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They could retain their precious p-books and still catch the wave of the future by including an e-book copy with the p-book. Say have a special edition that combines both for a bit extra money, as well as a lower priced p-book alone and e-book alone. That'd help them move toward the future. It'd probably get more people buying e-books too, because more would be willing to experiment when they're getting a physical book along with the e-book. Example pricing:
- Physical book (by itself): $20
- Physical book (with e-book): $24
- E-book: $10