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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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It looks that way publishers are being stupid and trying to slowly but surely kill the ebook industry. They are only shooting themselves in the foot in the long run. At some point books will be forced to go digital as have most things. I was looking at prices and some books are cheaper for the Nook than the Kindle. I have to have an e-reader because I live in a small city that after a major storm lost the only book store we had left and we haven't gotten a new one yet. So I'm looking for the e-book store with the best price and most choice. It's come down to Kindel or Nook for reading DRM books. I not worried though in the next 5 to 10 years I'm sure e-books will become the norm and prices will be forced to go down as publishers will be forced to conform or die.