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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Is it price gouging if half the price of a new dead tree addition?
From an economics point of view as long as there is a free market, there really is no such thing as price gouging. Over time, product is priced at the point that maximize profits. Right now, authors, publishers and resellers are in the process of determining what that price point is for various ebooks. For example, The Complete Morgaine by C.J. Cherryh is coming out this September at $20 as a hard back and $8 as an ebook. $11 also seems to be a fairly common price point for books that are in hardback.
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But you don't have a free market.
That's the point of copyright. To make a monopoly. And be able to charge monopoly prices...