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Originally Posted by HarryT
Perhaps because you're in Germany, where the Buchpreisbindungsgesetz (great word!) prohibits discounting of the prices of books? For those of us in countries without such a law, ebooks are generally much cheaper than their paper equivalents.
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The USA doesn't have such a law, but paper books are sold retail and ebooks agency, so paperback and older (unused) hardbacks are frequently cheaper than the ebook version, sometime substantially cheaper, because of routine heavy discounting (not special sales) for the paper versions.