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Originally Posted by barryem
While none of us likes high prices for books this is one of the potential advantages of keeping prices high. I remember when I got my first CD player and started shopping for CDs they were ridiculously expensive in their earlier days even though they cost practically nothing to make. The result was that albums I hadn't been able to find for decades were suddenly available again. I was in heaven.
If ebooks prices go up a lot more of that might happen, too. And no, I'm not wishing for higher prices since it seems to be happening anyway, at least more than I would have expected. But there are still a lot of older books unavailable as ebooks. Maybe if the rest of you paid high prices... 
Frank Yerby is a good example. In the 1940's and 50's he was one of the best selling of writers in America. His books were everywhere. A lot of his were forerunners of romance novels today but some were more serious historical novels and those were excellent. But you just can't find those today in ebooks.
This is just one example of many unavailable ebooks. Still there are a lot more now than just a few years ago.
Barry |
There are lots of books that are not available as ebooks. Frank Yerby was very popular in the 1940's and 50's but he was just one of those writers whose work went out of fashion for some reason. There are many writers like that; many of the mysteries that were enormously popular in the 1930's and 40's, for example, seem terribly outdated today. Just like popular music, tastes change.