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Originally Posted by Barcey
The physical books actually cost them money store and inventory. I can understand that they wouldn't want to reduce the Kindle edition cost to be lower then their clearance price. $6.99 for a hardcover seems like a clearance price to me.
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I follow the reasoning here that paper books may cost more than ebooks to store and distribute, but Kindle owners already paid for the device in the first place. I would say one of the compelling reasons for buying a Kindle is to pay less. Many people on this forum believe that over the lifetime of savings, the cost of the device becomes amortized. That's a difference between being a Kindle owner, and somebody who doesn't have a choice but to buy the paper edition. The Kindle owner will probably always buy the ebook, even if it costs the same or a little more, so it's not like if Amazon prices the ebook less, it would be stealing away pbook customers.
Today I looked up Michael Pollan's
In Defense of Food, and discovered the Kindle edition priced at $11.99, and the paperback at $10.20. I would probably pay the extra $1.79 for the ebook, but I'm not thrilled about it. I would feel much better if the two were at least priced the same :|