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Originally Posted by Hellmark
If people feel ebooks should be less than paperback books, sales will show that. If the sales are low, you could be making less than if the sales are good but at a lower price. Volume sales is how so many retailers work (and make so much money), so why not other industries?
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True, and honestly probably having all this discussion for nothing.
Most people are probably fine paying the same price for e-books. It's easy to forget that people posting on a site like this are enthusiasts, and are a very tiny portion of the e-book market.
The bulk of the people with e-readers are buying Kindles or Sony and buying $10 ebooks with no complaints whatsoever. The few people on sites like this will have little to no impact on ebook trends and prices--especially as e-books become more and more a mainstream product.
So it's very likely they'll be able to price e-books about the same (or the same) as print versions and sell them just fine, while people are still on sites like this bitching.
It's like that with anything. People on video game sites bitch about the $50-60 prices, slow price drops for some games etc. But games are still selling millions of copies at $60 because the average person is happy to pay that price They're buying a handful of games a year, not multiple games a week like the enthusiasts so they don't care as much about the price.
Same is true with e-books, those of us buying 1-2 a month don't care as much as those who read 4 or 5 books a week. Much less the more typical buyer of a best seller who probably buys a handful of books a year. Those are the folks who determine prices, not the enthusiasts.