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Originally Posted by rcentros
Yep. That's basically the way I'm going also. I've bought into eBooks, but not at near paperback prices. There should be a wider separation between the price for a book that can be held in your hands (and is more expensive to produce and ship) and one that costs the same to produce one copy as it does to produce a million copies. I'm not surprised that eBook sales are dropping -- if you're going to pay $15 to $20 for a novel it might as well be in a format you can hold and pass on to someone else. Greed is working against the Big 5.
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I don't mind newer books being at/near paper book prices. They have to strike while the iron is hot after all.
It's backlist (fiction) books being sold for +$8.00 that keeps me from buying.