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Originally Posted by fugazied
Yeah that seems a bit strange, I'm not sure why they don't distribute those for free and market it as a great feature of the their ebook store. I mean after all they'd probably get a lot of signups from people enjoying the public domain works and they convert to real sales and customers pretty easily.
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Even if not free (they are a business after all), there are other price points that work so much better. Think of the number of sales they'd get if they had it at like 99 cents for the classics.
Overall, I think the price of ebooks are too high. If I am not getting a physical copy, I don't want to pay as much. Plus, they're not having the expense of making a physical copy, ship it, etc, so their costs are lower. If they have substantially lower costs, why charge the same thing. Plus it isn't like the author is getting more money from each ebook. That isn't to say I won't buy ebooks, I just don't buy as many new releases. Gutenberg is my friend.