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Originally Posted by HarryT
But it's not "a few examples", Crowl. I buy a lot of ebooks, and I honestly cannot recall EVER having paid as much for the ebook as I would have done for the paperback.
It really is the case that, in the UK at least, ebooks on average cost around half the price of paperbacks.
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Just like you I buy lots of ebooks too and I would say that the discount tends to be far less than half when comparing amazon's regular prices.
I just did a quick check and out of the last 20 I bought outside of sales or offers, the discounts were under 25% for 16 of them, 2 were around 50% and 2 were around 50% of the hardback price.
Maybe it depends on particular factors such as what publisher or when people tend to buy books, for me it would be rare to buy an ebook while the paperback was fairly new (and priced accordingly) as I would have either already got the ebook or it would have tended to have been out a fair while.
If your buying habits result in you tending to see higher levels of discount then good for you, but your anecdotal evidence in no way merits such a definitive claim as you have chosen to make.