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Old 06-18-2014, 10:40 AM   #6
fjtorres
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Originally Posted by DrNefario View Post
Apparently $1.30 in 1914 would now be worth $30.93, which is not all that bad a price for a nice edition of a book, I don't think.

Edit: I should probably credit http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ as my source for that figure.
Interesting link.
I ran a spot check on paperbacks and SFBC editions from the pre-corporate era and they correlate nicely with today's ebook average prices. It also shows agency priced ebooks to be overpriced by 50-100%. Which we knew, right?
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