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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Ok that could explain part of it. Is the lowest price you are looking at "new or used".
I also noticed all your choices were traditional bestsellers.
Let me look at your links to make sure we are comparing apples to apples. Not apples to hard cider.
I went and looked at the first 2 that you posted.
On the first one, the lowest new paperback price is now 9.98. Looks like the $7 sold out.
The thing is on the lowest price, you were looking at 3rd party sellers.
Therefore my conclusion is: yes you can sometimes get the paperback cheaper but it has nothing to do with the publishers. It has to do with the sellers.
My mom has an almost brand-new hardcover of Dan Brown's Inferno. I picked it up for her two weeks after it came out for 49.5 cents. Goodwill was having a 2 hardbacks for 99 cents sale.
I paid $1.99 for the ebook since the publishers put it on sale. Got the Da Vinci Code with excerpt from Inferno free shortly before Inferno came out.
So if we want to conclude that ebook prices are higher than pbook prices, we must compare with the publishers retailers not 3rd party sellers.
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I did not look at third party. Here's a screenshot of the first book showing the mass market paper back price.
