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Originally Posted by Sonist
The hassle of not ordering directly from your device, if the prices are same across the board. When there is no reason to search for better pricing, convenience becomes paramount.
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Good answer. I rarely buy an eBook, and if I do, it goes into calibre. So I didn't think of that.
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Originally Posted by Sonist
The same Rabbit Run is now available at a uniform $11.99, generally only from major retailers, with one UK exception, which is at $19.27.
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Your inkmesh link shows incorrect prices and a link to long-gone Borders.
Checking at luzme.com, the U.S. price of the
Rabbit Run eBook does vary some.
A used print copy is $3.35 ($4.47 for large print), including shipping, per bookfinder.com, while the cheapest eBook vendors charge $8.99. Plus both the eBook and paper editions are widely available in public libraries. So Random House probably does not sell a whole lot of the eBooks. Some people find the eBook format preferable, and pay for it. Others don't. I don't see where this is a moral or freedom to read issue.
It's absolutely true that there are very few eBook retailers. I don't know for a fact that a new entrant would be allowed to charge less than Amazon. But I do know that if anyone was allowed to undercut Amazon's price, Amazon could and would match it. The price war would go on for as long as the new entrant's venture capital lasted, and no longer.