That may be, but inflated pricing on eBooks will put the publishers in the boat as the music industry. By your logic, there should not be any 99 cent MP3 files.

That may be, but inflated pricing on eBooks will put the publishers in the boat as the music industry. By your logic, there should not be any 99 cent MP3 files. They should all be priced as though they were 12 inch singles. Files are files. Sell me something physical and it had to be created. Files? Nope. eBooks are still being price fixed. Plain and simple. Even Baen admits to raising their eBook prices to match other vendors, even though they've capped theirs based on their own hardcopy prices. Whether there is collusion or not I wouldn't venture a guess. Before Mr. Baen died, I would say no. Sell by volume and sell more.