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Old 06-20-2015, 07:13 AM   #19
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Originally Posted by pwalker8 View Post
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.
You need to look at the historic value of money, though. $1 in 1970 had the same purchasing power as somewhere between $6 and $16 in today's money, depending what criteria you use to measure it ($6 if you purely consider inflation; $16 if you consider the increase in average incomes). See:

http://www.measuringworth.com/uscompare/

How many of your ebooks have you spent more than $16 on?

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