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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
No, it hasn't. Both the paperback and the eBook have been released at the same list price, $7.99. The publisher has chosen to discount the eBook on Amazon to $6.99 and Amazon has chosen to discount the paperback to $6.13 for now. Just as B&N has chosen to discount the paperback to $6.22 for online sales, but the publisher hasn't discounted the eBook there. The "problem" comes from two different pricing models (wholesale vs agency) and who gets to make the discounts.
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It costs more for the pBook than it does for the eBook. Even if it cost the exact same to make the eBook and the pBook, it cost to ship the pBook. So that then raises the cost. So there is no reason for the eBook to cost the same as the pBook. The eBook should always cost less because the cost is less to make the eBook.
The cheapest prices that I've found (so far without doing a Kobo trip to another country) are those two prices. So technically they were not released with the eBook being higher, but that's what we've ended up with.