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I have no quarrel with the priciple that new releases by popular authors be priced high for the first year or so. I ocassionally (though very rarely) bought the hardback of some book when I just couldn't wait for my favored MM paperback. Seems sensible to me. They should see soon enough if people aren't buying at that price. But while they have every right to set the ammount that they get for a book from the retailer I do not see that they have any right to interfere with the retailer's business by mandating how much the retailer sells it for. They certainly aren't going to influence me to either buy the hardback or the ebook at hardback prices by such a strategy. I'll just buy a different ebook and wait for a better price on that one. Charging high prices for backlist ebooks is even stupider. Either the customer considered it long ago and rejected reading it, or they read it long ago and are in the read once and never again group or they are rereaders and still have a paper copy and have no real need to buy the ebook. Some of the rereaders might rebuy it if the price was good but not if they price it the same as new releases.
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