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Originally Posted by j.p.s
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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But the average customer may not know that. And regardless if they could lower the prices they would probably get more business. Thankfully a lot of books have gone out of copyright so that there is another source of good reading material in the meanwhile.