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I have given up buying pbooks almost entirely since I bought my first Kindle in February. That being said, I almost never paid full cover price for any of my books. I have long been a haunter of used book shops and a scavenger at remainder tables in new bookstores. Only rarely did I buy a new release hardcover and only occasionally did I pay their full price, usually ordering from Amazon, and saving quite a bit any way.
Now look at what's happened with Stephen King's new novel, Under the Dome. When it was first offered for pre-orders at Amazon the e-book was offered at the usual $9.99 Kindle price. Then Walmart and Target got into a price war with Amazon over the hard cover, and the Kindle pre-order price fell to $9.00. Now that the hard cover has been out for a while the pre-order price for the Kindle edition has fallen even farther to $7.99. Where will it stop? I would have been happy paying the original price on the pbook release date, but now that they have pushed off the release date of the ebook their price has drifted lower by about 20%. I hope these publishers learn something from this experiment!
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