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Originally Posted by Pardoz
You're free to email your favourite store and ask why a certain e-book is still selling for hardcover price when the paperback has been out for fifteen years, of course, but the response will be 'Because that's the price we've been told to sell it at, and we're not allowed to change it.'
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That's what I'm worried about. That either implies the system doesn't work or the pubishers idea of when to discount ebook prices are a bit off in my opinion.
Again, you won't see this in paper books because of actually stocking and selling a physical item. I haven't checked recently but when ebooks were new, I saw large gaps in ebook pricing compared to their paperback counter parts since a lot of the ebooks were based on the hardcover price.
I hope things have changed or will in the not so distant future.