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Originally Posted by rcentros
I would buy more eBooks if they were still priced the way they were pre-Apple/Big Five collusion. But now I mostly just borrow them (novels) from the library via Overdrive. I guess the publishers make money either way, but I've got to believe they would make more with more direct sales to customers.
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Amazing how many people still cling to this story line as an excuse. Amazon was selling ebooks at a price point ($10) to get market share. Once the competition was out of the way and they had 80% market share, they stopped caring about that price point. When a new book comes out in hardbook, most of the time, the ebook is priced less than the printed book. For example, a hardcover copy of Monster Humter Memoir: Saints is $19 (list price $24). The kindle version is $9.99.
People pay what they are willing to pay. It's been that way in the book industry for a long, long time. Some people buy hard backs, some people buy paper backs, some people buy used and some people use the library (i.e. free). Ebooks hasn't changed that dynamic, it's just changed the rationalization process.