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Originally Posted by astra_lestat
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1. Um, "at most" means "at most".
2. My specific example was of a paperback, not a hardcover. The economics of ebooks gets WORSE for hardcover, not better. For hardcovers, there are many cases where the ebook costs the retailer several dollars more than the pbook would, and that's before you consider economies of scale or support costs.
3. But in any case, what of it? I can find pbook retailers who have a higher price than amazon on this title as well. So how does that prove anything about the underlying costs of ebooks vs. pbooks? It only tells you something about each retailer's efficiency of operations and pricing strategy.