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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
But because I agree with you, I know that Amazon knows what happens to the total Amazon sales of a book, eBook and paper, when they change the eBook price. That's what's they have to care more about internally than the effect on eBook sales alone. And yet they only released the effect on eBook sales. It's not lying. But it's an attempt to make a case rather than to be informative.
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For people like me, it's all about the e. I would like to swap out at least 95% of my current paper library for electronic editions. Unless there is some reason that I need paper, I will not be getting paper. For novels, the odds of my purchasing paper are effectively zero. If they started selling them in hardcovers for $5 and ebooks for $25, they would never sell me so much as a single book.
I used to buy almost nothing but hardcover. Change happens. If there are enough others in a similar situation, then driving up ebook pricing to prop up paper sales will be dangerous. I don't know if the ebook revolution is an unstoppable force, but the big publishers look nothing like immovable objects. They risk getting squashed. Maybe Bezos will end up saving them from themselves.