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Originally Posted by pwalker8
It's not the list price according to the Amazon page.
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Look at the Amazon page again. They are listing the print list price and comparing the digital price to that. It started out back when Kindle launched as a way to show what a bargain a Kindle book could be compared to the print book and is still the method they use, also back then many/most digital books had the same or similar list to print books since they were both sold using similar wholesale/retail methods. It makes the "discount" seem bigger than it actually is many times.
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I suspect that if we look at the price in six months, it will be discounted more. That's more or less the way that prices go with books. The further away one gets from the initial publication date, the less the book costs.
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Yes, thanks for pointing out the obvious.
Again though, it's not a discounted price really. It is the digital list, or "cover", price which the publisher has decided to charge. Nothing wrong or right with that, it just is.