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Originally Posted by issybird
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.
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You certainly get the feeling that certain publishers would rather sell ten copies of an old book a year for $12 each than sell 500 copies for $3 each. Don't ask me why.