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Originally Posted by dugong
It looks to me as if Penguin may be setting prices to discourage ebook sales. Are they doing this to encourage paperback sales?
On 4/25 I mentioned one title for which the ebook price was much more than the paperback price. The paperback edition of Maelstrom by Taylor Anderson, was available in B&N or Border stores for $7.99, but the ebook price from suppliers other than Amazon was $18.99.
The paperback has been out long enough so that used copies now show up on line for less than $5.00. You would expect the ebook price to come down. But instead, it went up, way up, to $24.95. I don't know if this was an error. If it is not, it would appear that Penguin does not want an ebook version of this title to be sold. Is this possible?
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And that is why I am so reluctant to get an ereader. The two main appeals to me are storage space and savings over regular books. BTW I am not saying the ebooks have to cost a fixed amount but that they should be cheaper if only by $3 to $5. Why would I buy an ebook for $9.99 when the paperback is $6.99? It must be that they want us to buy the paperbacks so they don’t have to get them returned. But if so, that is such a narrow and short sided view as the future is in ebooks and the sooner they convert the better for them as in the long run they would save more.