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Originally Posted by issybird
The insane prices of backlist ebooks. There are books I'd love to revisit, but not at $6, $8, $10 for what realistically are trivial and dated mysteries. Who's buying at these prices? Certainly not moi. $2? That strikes me as the sweet spot.
I can't resist noting that under the old system of copyright, (the one in force when the contracts were signed!), so many of these books would be in the public domain by now or very close.
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This is one of the secret weapons of ebooks from the publisher's perspective. There are no "used" ebook stores. There are no "batches" of ebooks that the publishers pay to print, and are then incentivized to lower the price on when they want to liquidate stock. The cost of distribution approaches zero. They can set a static price on an ebook, and keep it at that price forever.
You want it cheaper? What are you gonna do, buy the physical book?
