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Originally Posted by HarryT
No, sound business. There will always be people who are willing to pay more to read a book when it's initially published. Wait for the paperback release and the ebook price will fall dramatically. Baen have done the same for years with their "Advance Reader Copy" (ARC) ebook releases.
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You really don't know if it's "sound business" or not. Just because it's been done that way in the past doesn't make it sound. To know if it's sound or not you'd need to know how many sales they lost because of the higher price and nobody knows that. Amazon probably has the best data on this and they've made it clear that their analytic information shows it isn't sound business. I'm inclined to believe them but I acknowledge that they don't know for sure either.