Thread: Do Amazon and the Publishers want to Kill Digital Sales ?
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Old 04-19-2016, 11:40 AM   #99
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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy View Post
Is it ONLY paperbacks that did that or most goods?
If the latter then it is just economics in general.
Paperbacks are significantly more expensive than general inflation. Somewhere I posted about this, but I don't remember where. I took several books from the 50's, 60's and 70's and ran the cover prices through an inflation calculator. Just given inflation a paperback should be about $5 now. I never did get to doing it for hard covers. Inflation calculators are easy to find. Plug in the year the book was published and the cover price and it spits out what today’s price would be.

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