Thread: What would bring Nook back from the dead?
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Old 03-21-2019, 05:56 PM   #33
j.p.s
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Originally Posted by crich70 View Post
This point is a problem with all the ebook bookstores I think. Sometimes you see the price of the ebook as higher than even the paper book of the same title. And of course they have less overhead since they don't have to have stocks of paper, ink, etc. so why an ebook should be so expensive is a question I've never really heard a good answer to.
The ebook bookstores have their hands tied on this because of agency pricing as schemed by apple and as implemented by the big publishing houses. The contracts fix the prices and forbid discounts. (It still stinks, but it is not the bookstores' fault.)
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