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Originally Posted by Barcey
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.
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By definition, nobody can know what would have happened had they done something that they didn't actually do, but I'm inclined to believe that publishers have a good understanding of the book market. The fact that someone didn't buy a book at a higher price doesn't automatically make it a "lost sale", of course; there are people like me who will wait for the MMPB release to buy the ebook at a lower price.