Thread: What is with these Publishers?
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Old 01-13-2010, 01:51 PM   #140
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck View Post
Part of the problem--only part, but worth considering--is that the ISBN of a book is attached to the suggested retail price. They can't release an ebook at $25 when the hardcover comes out, and lower that price to $8 when the paperback comes out for the same ebook.
The ISBN and the price are only attached to each other if that is the way that the sellers accounting system works. The ISBN contains no pricing information in it, so any relationship between the two is created external to both. Meaning it is an arbitrary relationship that can be changed at any time by the person selling the book. If that was not the case then how could different sellers sell the same book for different prices?
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