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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
I had no idea of the price premium. I checked in my country and saw a "surcharge" of between 10 and 30% for ebooks over their paper equivalents. That's bizarre.
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To be fair, it's because paper books are sold to retailers on the wholesale model,where the retailer pays a wholesale price and can sell for whatever price they want, now ebooks are sold on the agency model where the publisher sets the price. Thanks, Apple.