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Originally Posted by fugazied
That's what I would do for the time being. Amazon will get it's pricing right eventually. At the moment we have a massive surplus of print books in warehouses and millions of 2nd hand print books while the ebook licensing and technology is in it's infancy.
We still have publishers who are unsure of how 'safe' and 'viable' ebooks are! Those publishers aren't helping Amazon's pricing.
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I'm often mystified why publishers don't flock to eBooks, because:
- Essentially no used book market to contend with
- Essentially no overstock situations where you have to eat books that don't sell
Part of the reason that paperbacks, coming out later, sell for cheaper, is that the hardcovers start to show up in the used book market and library sales. But with eBooks, you have to contend with neither, potentially prolonging the market shelf life of the book. I suppose the reluctance has to do with the Amazon publishing and related costs/uplifts, and just general unfamiliarity with the eBook market.