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Old 03-29-2016, 02:08 AM   #198
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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy View Post
Where is the proof that the Big 5 is inflating ebook prices so people will buy paper books?
Did they actually say this or are you making an assumption?
Or are people willingly paying their prices for ebooks?
Not only that but are you aware that the big 5 do discount their ebooks once in a while.
Dan Brown's Inferno was $1.99 on December 25, 2013.
It was 6 months old at the time and I picked up The Da Vinci Code free.
As of today it is 17.72 for hardback and 9.99 for ebook.
In my view the article I link to below sets things out nicely and is fairly typical of a view which is widely but not of course universally accepted. Though how else to account for the actions of the Big 5?

http://genedoucette.me/2016/02/the-c...hing-industry/
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