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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
I might add, reducing prices as demand falls is basic economics. There is absolutely no reason why a publisher would not reduce prices as time goes on, and the demand for a given title slows down. If they were completely insensible to economics, that's how they operated, they would never issue paperbacks.
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You're conflating two issues. One is that a given format of a book does not currently, ever, change in price. Hence while there is "no reason" (except they claim there is, the laughable one of ISBN numbers) to change prices, they currently simply don't do it.
Then there is a separate issue of
different markets for the paperback and hardback versions of books. This is
much more analogous to, say, Blu-Ray and DVD versions of a film than to changes within a single version of a product. One is considered a premium version...