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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
You mean pbooks and ebooks? Why should a book be cheaper than a movie ticket? With a movie ticket you get to see the movie exactly once and it takes only about 2 hours. A regular book takes much longer to read and entertain you, and you can read it as often as you want. A little bit different once the dvd comes out - that is usually more expensive than the movie ticket and pretty close to a hardcover book in price.
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The bigger point I would make is that books have serious competition as entertainment compared to decades ago. They cannot expect to cost as much as they once did. They also have more competition within the book world, now anyone can publish a book, sell it for .99, so that even at $9.99 price point the traditionally published book ought to be ten times better than the indie selling for a buck. And usually they are not much better if at all. Yet traditional publishers want to raise their ebook prices higher. It is suicide. It is the 'buggy whip' problem if they are doing this to prop up hardcover sales.
I will give you a concrete example to the problem: Netflix. $10 a month gets you tons of shows to watch, almost exactly the cost of buying 1 best selling ebook at Amazon.