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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Given that I have pbooks dating back to the 70's and that I've been replacing pbooks with ebooks as the backlist becomes available, I frequently pay more for an ebook than the original pbook. A number of my pbooks from the 70's cost less than a dollar new.
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Many of the used books that I purchase from inexpensive sources (e.g. thrift stores) cost more than their original price. I wish that people would look at historic prices when they complain about the cost of books, rather than just complain about prices, since they outstrip inflation. With ebooks killing off the second hand market, the cost of books is even further out of reach.
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I don't know about consensus feeling. Certainly there is a group of posters who think that ebooks should be cheaper than pbooks. There is also a group of posters who seem to think that ebooks should be free or near free and anything else is stealing from the readers and another group that seems to think that ebooks should be priced at the same price as the current pbook price and finally a group that doesn't seem to care all that much what the price is. I'm sure there are others. Any appearance of consensus is probably more from one group being more vocal in the voicing their opinion than anything else.
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I think that corsage put it best with respect to cost when they said, "there are too many other books I'm interested in (...)." While a lot of books cost more these days, after accounting for inflation, many ebooks cost significantly less. Even though these are usually self-published books, some of them are from major publishers.