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Originally Posted by The-eBook-Reader
As I anxiously await for my iPad to arrive to get started on the review, I've been doing some looking around at the new ebook prices.
The other day I was watching Apple's video demo of the iBooks app when I noticed that they had Stephen King's Under the Dome listed for $14.99 (not sure what it's selling for now).
At the time, all the major ebook stores were selling it for around $9.99.
Today it is up to $16.99 on Amazon and B&N, and $18.69 on Kobo (how does that make any sense?).
Anyway, right next to the ebook price on Amazon you see that they are selling the hardcover for $15.99 new and 10.11 used. Granted you have to pay shipping but still . . .
I also noticed that Amazon now has this to say below the publisher listing: This price was set by the publisher.
Madness, I say. Madness. When you can by a new hardcover for less than the ebook there's something seriously wrong with the system.
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Under the Dome is now 6.99 or whatever at Barnes and Noble. Hardcover. I know the Publisher's can't take into account bargain books from a single bookseller, but it certainly doesn't help their cause when they try to sell it for the same price (or close) as the regular book. As we all know by now, e-books should be seriously discounted.
EDIT": And as a BN employee, it's going to be considerably harder to sell the nook when I can't point to cheap ebook prices anymore. Now I have to explain to already skeptical customers that the expensive ebooks aren't our fault, but the publisher's. Yet another thing for customers to give me an eye roll for.