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Originally Posted by europas_ice
We are NOT talking about a matter of $2. For example, the book Dune Messiah (by Frank Herbert), at the sony bookstore, is $17.46. On amazon, it is $7.19. This is a matter of $10 difference, more than 50%!
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This is a publisher issue. When they did a new Hard Cover edition of the Herbert books ebooks were released at the same time & the publisher priced them based on the HC. Obviously Amazon said 'hey that's not right' & got them to change that and base the price on the paper back like it should be. It appears the publisher didn't bother to change the list pricing with other distributors. Kinda like Penguin when they "forget" to lower an ebooks price when a paperback comes out, sometimes they don't get changed for years. Amazon is more on the ball about pricing adjustments like that.
Sony must not pay attention as closely and companies like FW & BoB can't do much other than complaining to their distributor, which is usually Over Drive (Content Serve) or Lightning Source (Ingram). I suppose FW is kind of a distro now too with eReader.