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Originally Posted by lilac_jive
It's very rare I find the ebook for more than the actual book. When I do, it is something that has been released in the past year or so and has recently gone into paperbacks.
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I would agree with you
in general, but I think publishers are still experimenting with pricing.
Last year (or maybe it's two now?), Penguin started charging at least $2 more for each ebook than it was charging for the same print books (and these were books being released in mass market paperback). The ebook reading community caught on, wrote letters, and Penguin backed off.
Right now, it's Macmillan/St Martins and HarperCollins, although it's not every book. But in the last year, I've seen more and more of their ebook releases priced at $14 and $14.99, when the print books are still the $5.99, $6.99, or $7.99 mass market paperback prices. I have wondered if they are in some kind of special deal with Amazon, because the Kindle versions are priced the same as Amazon's other Kindle-released MMPB prices.
For examples, check Fictionwise or BooksOnBoard for some of the following:
Sherrilyn Kenyon: Unleash the Night, Seize the Night, Dark Side of the Moon, Dream Hunter, Devil May Cry, Upon the Midnight Clear (which is really a glorified novella, and shouldn't be at the $7.99 price!), Dream Chase
Christine Warren: Walk on the Wild Side
Cheyenne McCray: Moving Target, Shadow Music
Kristine Smith: Imminent Contact, Endgame, Law of Survival, Rules of Conflict, Code of Conduct
Robert W Walker: City for Ransom, City of the Absent, Shadows in the White
Laura Durham: For Better or Hearse
Kayla Perrin: Give Me an O!, Say You Need Me
Suzanne Enoch: By Love Undone
There are more, but I'm having trouble getting into Fictionwise (I have many of them on my Wish List). I'll bet they've gone down to deal with the Hachette Publishing fiasco.