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Originally Posted by 4691mls
Agreed. Apparently there are enough people out there willing to pay $15.99 (or whatever) for the latest book by a bestselling author for the publishers and stores to maintain this business model.
Personally, I usually wait until the book has been out a while and dropped in price (or until I can get it at the library) but if the people paying $15.99 are helping keep the author in business then that's OK with me.
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Pre ebooks, we saw the same dynamic with Hardback, trade and paperback. Add in used books and there were price points for everyone.
IMPO, the two big issues that ebooks have is that many people have trouble wrapping their head around the idea that something that doesn't physically exist except as a computer file has value and there really isn't a one to one match as far as price points go. While people might acknowledge the idea that with a hardback verses paperback you are mostly paying to get the book a year earlier, I think that the physical differences between the Hardback and paperback is what sticks in people's minds.