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Originally Posted by latepaul
I suspect most people are in the camp of mostly/only ebooks or mostly/only paper. Therefore it makes sense that they are priced independently. I understand why the comparison is made - it's natural to perceive the value of the same book in different formats as being related - but the more important comparison for the seller is what is this competing against? So is it priced similarly to other books in the same genre is more relevant than is it priced similarly to its own twin in another medium.
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Very true. You really need to compare prices of items in the same market. There are a lot of very different market segments that might appear similar on the surface but have very different price points. Sometimes you have to look at it from the classic economic stand point, i.e. what price point makes you the most money, verses what price point actually sells the most books, or what price point makes a specific individual buy. There are a lot of books out there that I won't read even though they are free and some books that I'm willing to pay a lot more money than most here simply because it's a go to reference for a subject that I'm really interested in.