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Originally Posted by sufue
I guess most of my griping about the price of an old series is that I almost certainly have them in DTB, so it's really hard to justify $7.99 each just to get them in e-book. And many of these books, I also probably have a PDF that I have scanned in, so even harder to justify the price just to get a nicer e-book version. So for me, I'm happy to see the e-book, but frustrated that it's not priced reasonably enough for me to get it.
And I'm not even sure it's good for the publisher...
If these were priced at $2.99 or $3.99, I'd end up buying them all over time. At $1.99 each, I'd probably buy them all at once. But at $7.99, I will never buy them, so they'll get nothing from me.
Maybe there are enough people who don't have in DTB, or are willing to pay that sort of price for "upgrade" to e-book, so that $7.99 on the demand curve maximizes profit for the publisher, but I just have a tough time believing it...
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I completely agree. I snap books up when ereaderiq tells me they're at $1.99, and often grab them at $2.99.
It's also frustrating when a small, decades old book is the same price as a new much larger book. (Starship Troopers, published in the 60s is under 300 pages and $9.99. So are all of the Wheel of Time books...the most recent one published in 2013 and 1025 pages. It's ridiculous that they're the same price.)