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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
What makes ebooks valuable to me is that I don't have to pay for them. I just love to devalue ebooks, hoping that authors churn out junk because publishers can no longer afford to pay them their true worth. 
What surprises me is how hardcovers can be discounted 40% and never suffer being devalued. |
Mostly, that's what's known as the remainder bin, i.e. stock they couldn't sale at the normal price, so they discount trying to get rid of existing stock. Of course, for a while, everyone discounting the hard back price of major best sellers, _did_ devalue the hard back books, which may be part of why big book stores had trouble staying in business. They needed high margin sells to cover their overhead.