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Originally Posted by MelancholyTea
I'd suggest you send Sony a list of titles that have hardback-esque prices when the title is already out in paperback. Publishers usually lower their eBook prices when the paperback comes out, but Sony might not have been alerted
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I think that you are right on here, MT. Sony has indicated that they will be keeping an eye on prices, and if things are out of line they will often be adjusting them. So for books that look like they are priced at hardback prices, when maybe they would be more in line with other stores like eReader/MobiPocket/etc, I wouldn't be surprised if they are adjusted.
On the other hand, as NatCh says, it is the publishers are the ones that set prices, so if the publisher really did intend that price to be higher for some reason, it will probably stay that way.
But from my own brief browsing, I think the Sony store ebook prices are generally in line for the majority, so it's encouraging that the store will be a place you can buy and not feel too much like you were ripped off. (Of course, we all think e-books are overpriced on the whole anyway, but that's a different matter altogether. Here, we are just hoping that Sony store prices will stay in line with ebook pricing as it exists today so customers don't end up going to exclusively PD books, or even reading less or on other platforms because of ebook prices.)
Like a lot of things, we'll learn a lot over time.