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Originally Posted by GeoffR
Perhaps the big publishers' pricing strategy is not too unreasonable after all? I know MobileRead members are not typical, but if anything I would have thought we were more price sensitive than typical readers rather than less.
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Remember that when you buy a cheap paperback in a supermarket or at Amazon, it's nearly always the retailer who's discounting it, not the publisher. The publisher sells the book at a fixed price: they get their money no matter what the retailer subsequently sells it for.