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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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I buy and read mostly English books where the Buchpreisbindungsgesetz doesn't apply, unless they are published in Germany. In general
(*), prices for ebooks don't seem to be drastically cheaper for me, if at all, even if you don't take the inability to resell them into account. The other issue, from a cost perspective, is that I can't buy them used. Almost every time when I buy a new (unused, old stock) or used book on eBay from an US seller, it's noticeably cheaper than the ebook version, even after shipping. It's just takes a couple weeks to get here and adds to my space problem.
(*) I should mention that I don't buy ebooks from Amazon, which likely deprives me of the best discounts around.