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Originally Posted by TallMomof2
Amazon was not selling all of their ebooks at a loss. Like many physical discount stores, Amazon used bestsellers as their loss leader to get customers in the door, so to speak. Amazon did the same thing with physical books when it was establishing a web presence.
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Agreed. I don't think anybody ever suggested that they were taking a loss on all their books. The issue seems to be that Amazon was artificially creating a $9.99 barrier for e-books in the public mind. For some books that's fine, but for others it's just not always realistic to sell that low.
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I will not pay more than $9.99 for any ebook. Not when I can walk into a physical store and buy the new physical book for the same or less than for the current ebook price.
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That's fine, and many would agree with you, or not even be prepared to go that high. But I
am prepared to do so, and I guess that's fine too.
There are many e-books that I'd be regularly prepared to pay as much or more for than a pbook. For instance, material where the speed, accuracy and convenience of searching is important. But even going to a store to buy a printed book can cost me more in time and running costs than the price of the book itself (as opposed to buying an ebook in seconds with a few clicks). I certainly do prefer to get an e-book cheaper, but I'm not going to be inflexible about it. If I think the content is worth the asking price I'm not too fussed about always paring off the last few bucks by hiking off to a discount book store.
I think there's room for all of us.
