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Originally Posted by rkomar
Well, the hardbacks are probably way overpriced to start with. The paper books are also a nuisance if they don't sell, taking up shelf and warehouse space and needing to be trucked around again, unlike ebooks. So, it often makes sense to drop the prices on the paper copies, just to get them off the hands of the distributors. Digital books don't have that same pressure for reducing prices.
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And isn't this already factored into the initial pricing of paperbooks? This isn't a valid reason to keep the price of the ebook artificially inflated.