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binaryhermit · 02-09-2020, 11:23 PM

But those $14.99 ebooks pretty much stay $14.99 forever outside of infrequent sale prices.
I mean, "The Everything Store" came out in 2013 and is still $12.99.

But yeah, I think a huge reason the ebook revolution "died" was agency pricing, or more specifically, agency pricing being used to prop up dead tree books at the expense of ebooks.
But without agency pricing ereaders might still be $300+ for the base model, so...

02-09-2020, 11:23 PM	#109
binaryhermit Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,732 Karma: 20469902 Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Lockport, IL Device: Kindle PW4, Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition	But those $14.99 ebooks pretty much stay $14.99 forever outside of infrequent sale prices. I mean, "The Everything Store" came out in 2013 and is still $12.99. But yeah, I think a huge reason the ebook revolution "died" was agency pricing, or more specifically, agency pricing being used to prop up dead tree books at the expense of ebooks. But without agency pricing ereaders might still be $300+ for the base model, so...