[issybird]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

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.

And yet the flip side is that the publisher can make money at low price points on ancient ebooks and I can't help thinking that no one is buying at these absurd prices. Sure, keep it at that price forever; there's no inventory cost. And no profit, either. Also noting that once the original readership of old "popular" books ages out of it, there won't be a market at all. Dead men read no ebooks.

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Macmillan somehow thinks a kid's book of less than 100 pages from the 1990s is worth CAD$21.99. (The price actually jumped up from 16.99 earlier this year.) It's not on my wishlist anymore.

The prices on my wishlist books never budge anymore. It's pointless, really.